Usually means: Culturally forbidden behaviors or practices.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. taboos: Merriam-Webster
  2. taboos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. taboos: Collins English Dictionary
  4. taboos: Vocabulary.com
  5. Taboos, taboos: Wordnik
  6. taboos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. taboos: Wiktionary
  8. taboos: Dictionary.com
  9. taboos: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Taboos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. taboos: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. taboos: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. taboos: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. taboos: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. taboos: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (taboo)

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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