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- noun Plural form of
boogieman .
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Examples
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Watch the movie and you will see why groups like the ADL and SPLC hype these boogiemen.
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SPLC needs boogiemen to continue to justify the 501C3 status.
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With many Americans stressed and stretched by economic uncertainty, political leaders and media personalities are stoking our fears of outsiders, the perpetual "other," and whatever election-time boogiemen they can conceive.
Mik Moore: Jews For Justice Present: God, Yoda and the Election-Year Fear Monster Mik Moore 2010
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With many Americans stressed and stretched by economic uncertainty, political leaders and media personalities are stoking our fears of outsiders, the perpetual "other," and whatever election-time boogiemen they can conceive.
Mik Moore: Jews For Justice Present: God, Yoda and the Election-Year Fear Monster Mik Moore 2010
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What sane person would shell out $500+ to see Palin rant about her boogiemen?
Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’ 2010
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With many Americans stressed and stretched by economic uncertainty, political leaders and media personalities are stoking our fears of outsiders, the perpetual other, and whatever election-time boogiemen they can conceive.
Mik Moore: Jews For Justice Present: God, Yoda and the Election-Year Fear Monster Mik Moore 2010
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With many Americans stressed and stretched by economic uncertainty, political leaders and media personalities are stoking our fears of outsiders, the perpetual "other," and whatever election-time boogiemen they can conceive.
Mik Moore: Jews For Justice Present: God, Yoda and the Election-Year Fear Monster Mik Moore 2010
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I would remind Mr. McCain that Ronald Reagan talked to Gorbachev, Nixon to Brezhnev and in fact all presidents before Bush recognized the need to speak to the respective boogiemen of their age.
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I want you to blow the box wide open rather than live in a box cowering frow the boogiemen outside.
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Scary boogiemen like Cuba and China are convenient scapegoats.
GOPer: China-Cuba Oil Myth Wasn't True Before -- But It May Be True Now! 2009
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