"bogey man" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music, page 223:",
          "text": "The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The bodgie soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about bodgie behaviour.",
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  "word": "bogey man"
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