Usually means: Personified fear in folklore stories.
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  1. boogeyman: Merriam-Webster
  2. boogeyman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boogeyman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boogeyman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boogeyman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boogeyman, boogeyman: Wordnik
  7. boogeyman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Boogeyman, boogeyman: Wiktionary
  9. boogeyman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boogeyman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boogeyman: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boogeyman: Dictionary.com
  13. boogeyman: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Boogeyman (film), Boogeyman (wrestler), Boogeyman, The Boogeyman (film), The Boogeyman (short story), The Boogeyman (wrestler), The Boogeyman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. boogeyman: Rhymezone
  16. boogeyman: FreeDictionary.org
  17. boogeyman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. boogeyman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. boogeyman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. boogeyman: Encyclopedia

(Note: See boogeymen as well.)

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noun:  Alternative form of bogeyman [A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of bogeyman [A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.]

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