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Crossword-Solution: TABOO 5 letters, 255 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Taboo n. A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach
to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of
religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of
Polynesia; interdiction.
Taboo v. t. To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of;
to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart
as a sanctuary for criminals.

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TABOO anagram ABOOT, BOOAT, BOOTA

We have 255 clues for the answer “TABOO”

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"The Sweetest ___" (Sade hit) 1 answer
"The Sweetest ___" (Sade's sexiest jam) 1 answer
"The game of unspeakable fun" 1 answer
'The Sweetest --' ('85 song) 1 answer
A divorce in some places 1 answer
A profane state 1 answer
Aboriginal interdiction. 1 answer
Banned from polite conversation 1 answer
Banned practice 1 answer
Behavioral no-no 1 answer
Beyond discouraged 1 answer
CULTURAL prohibition 1 answer
Conventional prohibition 1 answer
Conversationally off-limits 1 answer
Cultural no-no 1 answer
Culturally forbidden 1 answer
Customary social restraint 1 answer
Definite no-no 1 answer
Disapproved of, forbidden 1 answer
Eating non-halal, to Muslims 1 answer
Subject of social prohibition 1 answer
Eating pork, to an observant Jew or Muslim 1 answer
Entering a sacred burial ground, say 1 answer
Forbidden in polite society 1 answer
Frowned upon 1 answer
Frowned-on practice 1 answer
Game in which certain words are off-limits 1 answer
Game in which you can't say certain words 1 answer
Game played with unmentionables? 1 answer
Game where certain words are off-limits 1 answer
Game with a buzzer 1 answer
Game with a card that might say "Lawyer: court judge legal crime case" 1 answer
Game with clue words you have to avoid 1 answer
Gifting someone with a clock in China, e.g. 1 answer
Group no-no 1 answer
Hasbro's "game of unspeakable fun" 1 answer
Highly frowned upon 1 answer
In Chinese culture, gifting someone a clock is one 1 answer
Irrational prohibition 1 answer
It isn't done 1 answer
It simply isn't done 1 answer
It's just not said 1 answer
It's not done 1 answer
It's nothing to speak of 1 answer
It's simply not done 1 answer
Something forbidden by custom 1 answer
Like a divorce, in some places 1 answer
Like a third-rail issue 1 answer
Like cannibalism, e.g. 1 answer
Like certain subjects in certain company 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TABOO (5)

The devil-fish, it seems, were growing scarce upon the reef; it was judged fit to interpose what we should call a close season; for that end, in Polynesia, a tapu (vulgarly spelt ‘taboo’) has to be declared, and who was to declare it? Taipi might; he ought; it was a chief part of his duty; but would any one regard the inhibition of a Beggar on Horse-back? He might plant palm branches: it did not in the least follow that the spot was sacred.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
The common names for an axe, for blood, for bamboo, a bamboo knife, a pig, food, entrails, and an oven are taboo in his presence, as the common names for a bug and for many offices and members of the body are taboo in the drawing-rooms of English ladies.
A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson 2005
Michael, she gave the order: “I am not at home this afternoon to Lady Caroline Benaresq.” On second thoughts she extended the taboo to all possible callers, and sent a telephone message to catch Comus at his club, asking him to come and see her as soon as he could manage before it was time to dress for dinner.
The Unbearable Bassington Saki 2013
What was the source of the wonderful sound? What was this Sun Singer, this Star-Born One, this mysterious deity, as bestial-conducted as the black and kinky-headed and monkey-like human beasts who worshipped it, and whose silver-sweet, bull-mouthed singing and commanding he had heard at the taboo distance for so long? Ngurn had he failed to bribe with the inevitable curing of his head when he was dead.
The Red One Jack London 2014
Taboo in Schools The suppression of economic knowledge, disastrous as it is, is quite intelligible, its corrupt motive being as clear as the motive of a burglar for concealing his jemmy from a policeman.
A Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 2006

Quotes with TABOO (3)

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
Joyce Carol Oates
What is the first anesthetic? Wealth. And if I take your wealth? Necessities. And if I demolish your home, burn your fields? Acknowledgement. And if I make it taboo to sympathize with your plight? Family. And if I kill your family? God. And God...... Hasn't said a word in two thousand years. (136)
Omar El Akkad American War
Our society has tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Often we as family and loved ones are so afraid of death that even mentioning the word to terminal patients is taboo. We think the dying are oblivious to what is happening to them. Sadly, a dying person frequently feels afraid to bring it up him or herself. When I enter a hospital room I often hear a sigh of relief. At last, someone is here to help the family come to term…
Megory Anderson Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 539 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).