Usually means: Prohibited or restricted by social custom.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word taboo:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. taboo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. taboo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. taboo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. taboo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. taboo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Taboo, taboo: Wordnik
  7. taboo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. taboo: Wiktionary
  9. taboo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. taboo (tabu): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. taboo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. taboo: Dictionary.com
  13. taboo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. taboo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Taboo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. taboo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. taboo: Rhymezone
  19. taboo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. taboo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. taboo: Free Dictionary
  22. taboo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. taboo: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. taboo: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. taboo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Taboo: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. taboo: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. taboo: Political
  2. Taboo: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  3. TABOO: Acronym Finder
  4. taboo: A Word A Day

(Note: See tabooing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
noun:  (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
adjective:  Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
adjective:  Culturally forbidden.
verb:  To mark as taboo.
verb:  To ban.
verb:  To avoid.

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