Usually means: Mischievous imp from folklore tales.
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  1. hobgoblin: Merriam-Webster
  2. hobgoblin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hobgoblin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hobgoblin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hobgoblin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hobgoblin, hobgoblin: Wordnik
  7. hobgoblin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hobgoblin: Wiktionary
  9. hobgoblin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hobgoblin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hobgoblin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hobgoblin, hobgoblin: Dictionary.com
  13. hobgoblin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hobgoblin (Dungeons & Dragons), Hobgoblin (Marvel Comics), Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley), Hobgoblin (Warhammer), Hobgoblin (beer), Hobgoblin (comics), Hobgoblin (disambiguation), Hobgoblin (fairy), Hobgoblin (novel), Hobgoblin (song), Hobgoblin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hobgoblin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hobgoblin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hobgoblin: Rhymezone
  18. Hobgoblin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hobgoblin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hobgoblin: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hobgoblin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hobgoblin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Hobgoblin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. hobgoblin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hobgoblin (fairy), Hobgoblin (monster), hobgoblin: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hobgoblin, The Hobgoblin: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hobgoblins as well.)

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noun:  A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.
noun:  (by extension) A source of dread, fear or apprehension; a bugbear.

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