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The title of this study is Taboo Words found in Crank High Voltage movie script. This movie was directed and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The aims of this study is to identify and classify the types and the function of taboo words in the Crank High Voltage movie script. All the data were collected from the movie script of Crank High Voltage. They were identified and classified based on the types and function according to the theory of Wardhaugh (2006) and Jay (1992). Documentation method were applied to collect all the data from the movie script. It was done in some stage as it follows: watching and reading the movie script, then the selected word were quoted and classified based on the type and function. Finally, in accordance to the result, there are eight types of taboo word occurred they are cursing, profanity, obscenity, vulgarity, slang, epithets, insult and slurs, and scatology. There are four function of taboo word as it follows: to draw attention to oneself, to show contempt, to be provocative, and to mock authority.