Usually means: Frightening imaginary beings used as threats.
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  1. bogeymen: Merriam-Webster
  2. bogeymen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bogeymen: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bogeymen: Vocabulary.com
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  7. bogeymen: Dictionary.com
  8. Bogeymen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. bogeymen: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bogeymen: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See bogeyman as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bogeyman)

noun:  A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
noun:  (by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract.
▸ Also see bogeyman


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