Usually means: Personification of fear and punishment.
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  1. bogeyman: Merriam-Webster
  2. bogeyman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bogeyman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bogeyman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bogeyman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bogeyman, bogeyman: Wordnik
  7. bogeyman: Wiktionary
  8. bogeyman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bogeyman (bogyman): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bogeyman: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bogeyman: Dictionary.com
  12. Bogeyman (Ghostbusters), Bogeyman (disambiguation), Bogeyman (film), Bogeyman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bogeyman: Rhymezone
  14. bogeyman: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bogeyman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Bogeyman: The Word Detective
  17. bogeyman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. bogeyman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bogeyman: Encyclopedia

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  1. bogeyman: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bogeymen as well.)

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

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