n.
1.a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
2.a decree that prohibits something
3.the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
4.refusal to approve or assent to
5.the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
Idiom of the Day
call (someone or something) into question or call into question (someone or something)
to dispute or cast doubt upon someone or something
The lawyer called the man's statement about his neighbor into question.