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taboo English

Meaning taboo meaning

What does taboo mean?
Definitions in simple English

taboo Noun

— An taboo is a social or religious custom that bans something.

taboo Verb

— If you taboo, you mark something as taboo.

taboo

— adjective (= forbidden, out) excluded from use or mention forbidden fruit in our house dancing and playing cards were out a taboo subject — verb declare as sacred and forbidden — adjective forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands — noun a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature — noun an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion

Synonyms taboo synonyms

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taboo English » English

forbidden sacred prohibition ban tabu holy forbid prohibited prohibit secret banned proscribed verboten restricted outlaw out interdict disallow custom contraindication bar avoidance avoid warning veto unutterable unspeakable unmentionable totem tapu taint tabú tab strictly forbidden sacred cow risque restriction restrict regarding restrictions refuse recant protective magic proscription proscribe prohibited word profanity prevent offensive word obscenity obscene word

Topics taboo topics

What do people use taboo to talk about?
Social behavior Religion Practice religion Religious purification

Taboo
Daily life Food Types of food

Prohibited food

Conjugation taboo conjugation

How do you conjugate taboo?

taboo · verb

Examples taboo examples

How do I use taboo in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It exists, but since it's taboo and nobody talks about it, there's no need to give it a name.
The excessive use of salt should be taboo.
The topic is taboo here.
It exists, but seeing as it is taboo and that nobody talks about it, there's no need to have words for it.
Incest is a taboo found in almost all cultures.
No taboo is known to be universal.
It used to be taboo for women to smoke.
In special forces, torture is a taboo.
That's taboo.
This subject is taboo.

Movie subtitles

But for many years the question was taboo to science.
Escarpment taboo. Escarpment taboo, your grandmother.
It's Taboo, radio listeners, your 15 minutes of temptation.
But remember. it's taboo.
You know as well as I do, Cokes are taboo. All soft drinks.
Meaning that. women, cigarettes, drinking..and many other things are taboo.
Absolutely taboo.
Taboo subject.
Well why is she a big taboo subject all of a sudden?
It's an ancient taboo, set forth in the sacred scrolls.
Taboo subject tonight!
Taboo.
So, polygamy. which is the norm in some societies, is taboo in ours.
Taboo?
Black magic, taboo, anything forbidden.
Cliffs, savages and the taboo.
Escarpment taboo.
Escarpment taboo, your grandmother.
No, sex is taboo in the home.
No wonder why a woman is taboo on a ship. it's not because the gods are jealous of them!
I'm taboo around here, savvy.
Why is she a big taboo subject?
Mike, is there some tribal taboo against telling outsiders the legends?
As Michael's wife you were unobtainable and as the wife of my chief clerk taboo by then moral standards. of my uncle.
If this is the sacred volcano of the taboo, they dare not follow.
They dare not set foot here, for all this is taboo.
This is a big taboo.
Experience pleasure without reserve, without restraint, without taboo.
Second: Taboo wipes out sacrifice.
Even a very faint noise like this is taboo abroad.

News and current affairs

Devaluation, indeed, remains a taboo.
It used to be that even mentioning corruption in some official circles was considered taboo.
To many, both in and outside of Greece, this stance was peculiar: billions had been spent saving big banks, but evidently saving a country of eleven million people was taboo!
Although homosexuality remains taboo, gays seem safe.
Most men on the other hand-deterred by fear, ignorance, pride, and, sometimes, taboo-refuse to be tested voluntarily.
Curiously, the one taboo area in this discussion is population.
But a negative by-product of a policy which allows doctors to practice euthanasia is that the taboo against terminating human life diminishes.
Fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy should not remain a taboo.
To do so, it is feared, would give implicit support to the skeptics, which is taboo.
Indeed, genital mutilation makes a woman's experience of sex, that taboo of taboos, into a painful, humiliating, punitive procedure.
Indeed, there is something of a taboo on writing about Tsarukyan, and with good reason: not only is he rich, but also he controls an army of obedient skinheads.
One example is Eurobonds, which Merkel has declared taboo.
By focusing the QE debate on risk-sharing, Draghi managed to distract Germany from an infinitely more important issue: the enormous size of the QE program, which completely defied the German taboo against monetary financing of government debts.
The rise of unelected technocrats to political power in Greece and Italy suggests, at least superficially, that the old taboo against technocratic governments pursuing an EU-dictated agenda has been shattered.
Kissing and fondling in public, even by spouses, is taboo.
Nakasone broke the taboo by being the first prime minister to worship at the Yasukuni shrine in his official capacity on August 15, 1985, the fortieth anniversary of the end of World War II.
This ever-growing list of forbidden words and taboo subjects, drawn up by Liu Binjie and his army of censors, starves the nation's soul and encages the minds of writers.
In particular, this could mean the introduction of what has so far been viewed as somewhat taboo equipment, such as light aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines.
Now, at last, the taboo that prevented debate has been broken.
People may differ about the ethics of euthanasia itself. But a negative by-product of a policy which allows doctors to practice euthanasia is that the taboo against terminating human life diminishes.
The only question is whether that taboo will fall before or after next year's German general election.
Fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy should not remain a taboo. Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.
After World War II, for obvious reasons, the expression of nationalist emotions was virtually taboo in Europe (not least in Germany).

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