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UK
/tæbˈuː/
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[ US /tæˈbu/ ]
[ US /tæˈbu/ ]
VERB
- declare as sacred and forbidden
NOUN
- an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
- a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
ADJECTIVE
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excluded from use or mention
forbidden fruit
a taboo subject
in our house dancing and playing cards were out - forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
How To Use taboo In A Sentence
- It is becoming a taboo habit now and there are far more non-smokers than puffers.
- The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
- So strong is the taboo'A nice tie. Times, Sunday Times
- Sex is considered taboo as a topic for discussion.
- He says the Holocaust was being used to legitimise the suffering of other peoples and he wanted to break what he called a taboo on discussing it. Neturei Karta Hasidim Hangin’ With Ahmadinejad | Jewschool
- The rude words are taboo in ordinary conversation.
- The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top and bottom of the bell curves. Archive 2005-02-27
- Until recently online dating was considered a taboo and the domain of sexual deviants.
- For National Poetry Month (April, to civilians), GottaBook's proprietor is promising new work by some of the finest kids 'poets in the land. Chicken Spaghetti:
- Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’