Word.ws English Dictionary

t-word

t-word noun: tax or taxes, treated as if it were taboo.

Noun (1)

t-word (plural t-words)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous) tax or taxes, treated as if it were taboo.
    • Some will claim these tax hikes aren't really taxes. They'll search the dictionary to find every possible way to avoid using that “T” word.1995, Bill Clinton, “The President's Radio Address, October 7, 1995”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Book 2: July 1 to December 31, 1995, page 1553
  2. (euphemistic) The word tranny, regarded as offensive and taboo.
  3. (euphemistic) Any of several other words beginning with t when regarded (sometimes humorously) as taboo, for example tit, twat, turd, terrorist or terrorism, treason, Trump.

Noun (2) capitalized: T-word

T-word (plural T-words)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of t-word.

Forms of t-word

pluralt-words
alternative formT-word
pluralT-words

Questions about t-word

What does t-word mean?
T-word means tax or taxes, treated as if it were taboo.
What part of speech is t-word?
T-word is a noun.
What is the plural of t-word?
The plural of t-word is t-words.

Words near t-word in the dictionary

  1. T-V distinction
  2. T-varieties
  3. T-variety
  4. T-wave
  5. T-waves
  6. t-word
  7. t-words
  8. T-zone
  9. T-zones
  10. t.
  11. T. Camp

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: t-word (page history and authors); T-word (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “t-word.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/t-word. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.