Usually means: Untouchable subject beyond any criticism.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word sacred cow:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sacred cow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sacred cow: Merriam-Webster
  3. sacred cow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sacred cow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sacred cow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sacred cow: Vocabulary.com
  7. sacred cow: Wiktionary
  8. sacred cow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sacred cow: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sacred cow: Dictionary.com
  11. Sacred Cow (Bob's Burgers), Sacred Cow (album), Sacred cow (disambiguation), Sacred cow (idiom), Sacred cow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sacred cow: Rhymezone
  13. sacred cow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sacred cow: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sacred cow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sacred cow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Sacred cow: Phrase Finder
  18. sacred cow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Sacred Cow: bizterms.net
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. sacred cow: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Sacred Cow, sacred cow: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sacred_cows as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sacred cow)

noun:  (idiomatic) Something which cannot be tampered with, or criticized, for fear of public outcry. A person, institution, belief system, etc. which, for no reason other than the demands of established social etiquette or popular opinion, should be accorded respect or reverence, and not touched, handled or examined too closely.

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