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Definition of Bogey
1. Noun. An evil spirit.
2. Verb. To shoot in one stroke over par.
3. Noun. (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole.
4. Noun. An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft.
Definition of Bogey
1. n. A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
2. n. A goblin; a bugbear.
Definition of Bogey
1. Noun. (archaic) The Devil. ¹
2. Noun. An object of terror; a bugbear. ¹
3. Noun. One of two sets of wheels under a train car. ¹
4. Noun. (U.K.) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril. ¹
5. Noun. (engineering) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics. ¹
6. Noun. (engineering) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition. ¹
7. Noun. (context: military slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen, and often suspected to be hostile. ''(Also sometimes used as a synonym for bandit - an enemy aircraft)'' ¹
8. Noun. (golf) A score of one over par in golf. ¹
9. Verb. (golf) To make a bogey. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bogey
1. to shoot in one stroke over par in golf [v -GEYED, -GEYING, -GEYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bogey
Literary usage of Bogey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"(3) Peter Bodkin is a master tailor in SELBY'S ' Taken in and Done for' (qv).
bogey: "being some Account of the Curious Behaviour of Disembodied Bates. ..."
2. Mind Your Own Business: The Case for Municipal Management by Robert B. Suthers (1905)
"H AVING no solid arguments to bring against The "bogey of municipal trading, ...
Their favourite bogey is MUNICIPAL DEBT. FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DEBT. ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"XI Proves Conclusively the Existence of the Dark Tower Visited by Child Rowland,
and of "bogey" who Frightens Children. THE Gamberi River — clear as a ..."
4. Games & Dances: A Selected Collection of Games, Song-games and Dances by William Albin Stecher (1912)
"(bogey Man; Pom, Pom, Pull Away; Kings.) A player, chosen as Black Man, stands
at one end of the ... The bogey Man calls, "Are you afraid of the Black Man? ..."
5. War and Waste: A Series of Discussions of War and War Accessories by David Starr Jordan (1913)
"... CHAPTER III THE PERENNIAL bogey OF WAR IT IS an open secret, a very open one,
that springtide war scares have but one purpose, the extension of our ..."
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