Usually means: Source of annoyance or fear.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word bugaboo:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bugaboo: Merriam-Webster
  2. bugaboo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bugaboo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bugaboo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bugaboo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bugaboo, bugaboo: Wordnik
  7. bugaboo: Wiktionary
  8. bugaboo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bugaboo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bugaboo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bugaboo, bugaboo: Dictionary.com
  12. bugaboo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bugaboo (The Flea), Bugaboo (disambiguation), Bugaboo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bugaboo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bugaboo: Rhymezone
  16. Bugaboo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Bugaboo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. bugaboo: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bugaboo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bugaboo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bugaboo: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. bugaboo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bugaboo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bugaboo: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bugaboo, bugaboo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See bugaboos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Alternative spelling of bug-a-boo [A mythical, nocturnal creature; a hobgoblin.]

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