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boo word

boo word
 n.— «Donald Nelson warned that Hitler’s hustlers are baiting the chumps with trick words, whispering about our industry being “sovietized,” the biggest boo word of the bunch.» —“Winchell on Broadway” by Walter Winchell Nevada State Journal (Reno) Mar. 24, 1942. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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