The phrase "boogeyman for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe someone or something that serves as a source of fear or anxiety for another person or group. Example: The ruthless dictator was seen as the boogeyman for the citizens of the country, constantly instilling fear and paranoia in their minds.
"China's the boogeyman for all of this.
"The I.T. industry is going to become the boogeyman for global warming," he worries.
In a way, he made the perfect boogeyman for J. Edgar Hoover, who managed to amass a file of hundreds of pages on a man who must have seemed the perfect fusion of Red menace and sexual pervert.
A recurring boogeyman for Google and the rest of the Internet search business is click fraud.
"It's the best boogeyman for the moment".
Both Democrats and some Republicans keep blaming it all on "Wall Street" (Bernie Sanders's all-purpose boogeyman) for "getting away with murder" (Donald Trump on hedge funds).
Hillary Clinton has responded by giving speeches attacking Trump for "protectionism," a boogeyman word for the globalist elite she represents.
Every frightening story needs a formidable boogeyman, and for the story of skin, the big, bad monster is the stretch mark.
But when we conceive of homophobia as a boogeyman responsible for only the most obvious and egregious horrors, we miss the finer, nuanced, harder-to-see -- and therefore in some ways more dangerous -- moments that are also homophobic (however "polite" they might seem) and have very real consequences.
"Cropsey," named for the mythic boogeyman of Hudson Valley campfire stories, is the cinematic version of peeking under the bed and not breathing a sigh of relief.
And ever since it unfairly has become the boogeyman of liberal politicians, blamed for opening the floodgates to excesses of money in elections.
