ghostbuster

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ghostbuster

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From ghost + buster, popularized by the 1984 film Ghostbusters.

noun ghostbusters · ghost buster · ghost-buster

Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts. The deputy mayor said maybe they could hire one of those ghostbusters to vacuum the ghosts out of the house. But someone else said ghostbusters aren't real and are only in the movies.

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@misc{ghostbuster_2026,
  title = {ghostbuster},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ghostbuster},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}