An imaginary monster used to frighten children

Usage examples of bugaboo.

She talked knowledgeably about carbon dioxide scrubbers, carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, about the heating and cooling systems, and our biggest bugaboo, radiation.

And he taught me what a bugaboo Science can be in the mind of a man who, whatever his ill-luck and his limitations may have been, was simply a fool.

And uppermost on the pyre, whence moths were still escaping, stood, supported by beanpoles, the public scandal, the bugaboo, Baal tarred and feathered, the Great Cuckoo Bird.

Describe him, in order that, if we meet him by chance, like Bugaboo John or Lara, we may recognize him.

National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg described Saddam Hussein as a personal bugaboo of the president.

Here was the rape mania, the old bugaboo, one of the big keys to the whole Hell's Angels phenomenon.

Negro riots The possibility of a Hell's Angels' dope network brings up once again the old bugaboo of expansion.

It eventually began to make sense, along with dealing with some of the bugaboos mentioned earlier.

Durmond gave me a wry smile while I muddled over the remaining bugaboos that had been haunting me for several days.

Ogres and bugaboos and I had been happy bed-fellows, compared with these terrors that made their bed with me throughout my childhood, and that still bed with me, now, as I write this, full of years.

The easy transformation, like the nonsensically—impossibly—successful spontaneous mass uprising, are bugaboos of the left, of the liberals and of the Reds and the Greens.

The economic determinism of Marx is an exploded bugaboo, and the American people are the masters, not the slaves, of their economic system.