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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
boojum /ˈbuːdʒəm/

▶noun an imaginary dangerous animal.

– origin 1876: nonsense word coined by Lewis Carroll in The Hunting of the Snark.

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