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bugaboo noun an imagined object of terror UK, 1740- Selling apples on the streets became the great national bugaboo, a coast-to-coast phobia. — Max Shulman, The Zebra Derby, p. 109, 1946
- [W]e are having fish for supper this Friday nite because I mentioned I was Catholic–their bugaboo. — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 219, 1965
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