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boogeymen

n. (plural of boogeyman English)

Usage examples of "boogeymen".

Are white people who see black boogeymen around every corner any different?

Harry Talbot finished telling them about the Boogeymen, Sam leaned forward on the high stool to the telescope eyepiece.

Maybe he was just trying to anchor the fantastic image of ape-dog-reptilian Boogeymen in the real world, tie them in his mind to that vacant lot, and thereby make them more concrete, so he could deal with them.

And at the moment, finding a way to remake her life seemed a more important issue than learning where the Boogeymen came from and what they were.

Central, it would be because one of the search parties or a couple of the Boogeymen nailed them along the way.

The books make kids examine the boogeymen hidden in the closet and then turn on the light as reassurance.

For more than a year, his sleep had been troubled by nightmares with a variety of plots and a panoply of boogeymen, only some of which he could recall when he woke.