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bugaboo word
 n.— «I hope he will be defeated so badly that the bugaboo word Imperialism will never be heard again.» —“What Republicanism Has Done in Wyoming” by Francis R. Warren Fort Wayne News (Indiana) Oct. 12, 1900. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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