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1 a cultural or religious custom that does not allow people to do, use or talk about a particular thing as people find it offensive or embarrassing:
an incest taboo * a taboo on working on a Sunday * to break / violate a taboo * Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.
2 a general agreement not to do sth or talk about sth:
The subject is still a taboo in our family.
taboo adjective:
in the days when sex was a taboo subject * Any talk of the divorce is strictly taboo.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for taboo is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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