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Noun(1) an imaginary monster used to frighten children(2) a source of concern

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(1) In the fast-emerging video direct marketing arena, this fact-versus-fiction scenario had been somewhat of an industry bugaboo until just a few years ago.(2) An extremely long hitter with a fabled touch around the greens, Mickelson and Smith continue to work on his chief bugaboo : accuracy off the tee.(3) In fact, the entire notion of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510scarcityu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is a bugaboo contrived by conservative economists to justify the distributional injustice of the capitalist system.(4) Almost sixty years later, Japanese militarism remains the great bugaboo of East Asian politics.(5) Keys have always been my bugaboo , but when my youngest daughter Addy was a toddler, she usually solved my dilemma.(6) This dilemma isn't confined to non-professional players; it has become a bugaboo for some of the top professionals on tour too.(7) The Endangered Species Act has long been a bugaboo for anti-environmental lawmakers, who have unsuccessfully attacked it from every imaginable direction.(8) On a related matter, lack of socialization is the bugaboo of the anti-homeschooler.(9) We don't want wrong-note anxiety to be the bugaboo .(10) Even coal, the bugaboo of climate change, would make a better husband for water, saving billions of gallons of waterflow yearly, even after consuming more water for sulfur removal.(11) But monotony - the bugaboo of any training program - had reared its ugly head in my direction.(12) The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.(13) By doing so, engineers were able to eliminate or reduce many of the rotary's exhaust-related bugaboos , which primarily were related to emissions and fuel economy.(14) They are still America's greatest and most enduring bugaboos .(15) One of the main bugaboos that Americans have about national healthcare is the fear that it means long waiting times for office visits and elective surgery.(16) Still, the bugaboos of data transparency and price fixing concern regulators.
Related Words
(1) bugaboo
(2) bug
(3) boo
Synonyms
Noun
1. bogeyman
2. boogeyman
3. booger
4. bugbear


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