Bogey

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  • noun. An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.
  • noun. A cause of annoyance or harassment.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A golf score of one stroke over par.
  • noun. The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.
  • noun. An unidentified flying aircraft.
  • noun. A detective or police officer.
  • noun. A piece of dried or semisolid nasal mucus; a booger.
  • transitive verb. To play (a hole in golf) scoring one stroke over par.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See bogy, bogyism.
  • noun. See bogie.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A goblin; a bugbear.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The Devil.
  • noun. An object of terror; a bugbear.
  • noun. One of two sets of wheels under a train car.
  • noun. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
  • noun. A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
  • noun. a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
  • noun. 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)
  • noun. A score of one over par in golf.
  • verb. To make a bogey.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an evil spirit
  • noun. an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
  • verb. to shoot in one stroke over par
  • noun. (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole
  • Word Usage
    "He again started sluggishly in the final round, taking bogey from the rough on No. 1 and having to save par from thick grass short of the green at No. 2."
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    Bogart  bogart  
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    bogeyed  bogeying  bogeys