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/bˈoʊgi/ Listen

noun

Bogey n. (pl. bogeys and bogies) (Also bogie and bogy)

1.

A goblin; a bugbear.

Synonyms: bogeyman. "I have become a sort of bogey a kill-joy."

2.

(Golf) A score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.

3.

(Mil.) An unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.

Bogey n. (plural bogeys)

1.

A goblin; a bugbear. "I have become a sort of bogey a killjoy."

2.

(Golf) A score on a given hole which is one stroke over par. Originally, bogey had the same meaning as par does now, i.e. a given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; said to be so-called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. A double bogey is a score of two strokes over par.

3.

(Golf) Par. See sense 2, above. (Archaic)

4.

(Military) An unidentified aircraft, especially one detected on a radar screen and believed to be an enemy airplane. (Also spelled bogie)

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... warn travellers against remaining over night at Miana, and, of course, I have not by any means been forgotten. Like most of these alleged dreadful things, it is found upon close investigation to be a big bogey with just sufficient truthfulness about it to play upon the imaginative minds of the people. The "Miana bug-bear" would, I think, be a more appropriate name than Miana bug. The people here seem inclined to be rather rowdyish in their reception of a Ferenghi without an escort. While trundling through ...

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... only escape their attentions by going out of town. It was an excellent excuse for golf, he declared, and an opportunity to improve on his five handicap. I am bound to say that while I was with him he never went round in less than twenty over bogey, and when he only took twenty over ...

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