noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also known as a boogeyman or bogeyman , one can only have an effect if its victim pays heed to it.
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But it helps to expiate our imagined sins if we have a bogeyman to hand, a Drug Baron.
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He's the bogeyman of the North Shore.
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It was in 1924 and the Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, was the bogeyman .
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Strange, he hadn't seemed the type to be scared of bogeymen.
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The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching.
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The other Chris Woodhead revelled in his media role as the teachers' bogeyman .