Bogey

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.
  • n. A cause of annoyance or harassment.
  • n. Sports The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.
  • n. Sports A golf score of one stroke over par.
  • n. Slang An unidentified flying aircraft.
  • n. Slang A detective or police officer.
  • v. Sports To play (a hole in golf) scoring one stroke over par.
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  • n. The Devil.
  • n. An object of terror; a bugbear.
  • n. One of two sets of wheels under a train car.
  • n. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
  • n. A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
  • n. a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
  • n. 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)
  • n. A score of one over par in golf.
  • v. To make a bogey.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A goblin; a bugbear.
  • n. 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.
  • n. an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See bogy, bogyism.
  • n. See bogie.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an evil spirit
  • n. an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
  • v. to shoot in one stroke over par
  • n. (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole
    • Verb Form
    bogeyed    bogeying    bogeys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    evil spirit    aircraft    shoot    score   
    Cross Reference
    bogart    Bogart   
    Variant
    par   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bog    booger   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Muskogee    Yogi    fogy    hoagie    hoagy    yogi   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    whammy    amputee    entente    birdie    arrangment    by-pass   
     
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