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ALL meanings of bogey

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  • countable noun bogey A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason. 3
  • countable noun bogey Bogey is also an adjective. 3
  • countable noun bogey A bogey is a piece of dried mucus that comes from inside your nose. 3
  • countable noun bogey In golf, when a player scores a bogey at a hole, he or she takes one more shot than the standard that has been fixed for that hole. 3
  • noun bogey an evil or mischievous spirit 3
  • noun bogey something that worries or annoys 3
  • noun bogey a score of one stroke over par on a hole 3
  • noun bogey a standard score for a hole or course, regarded as one that a good player should make 3
  • noun bogey a piece of dried mucus discharged from the nose 3
  • noun bogey an unidentified or hostile aircraft 3
  • noun bogey a detective; policeman 3
  • verb bogey to play (a hole) in one stroke over par 3
  • verb bogey to bathe or swim 3
  • noun bogey a bathe or swim 3
  • abbreviation BOGEY bogy1 3
  • noun bogey par, esp. for an average player 3
  • noun bogey one stroke more than par on a hole 3
  • verb transitive bogey to score one over par on (a given hole) 3
  • noun bogey golf score: one over par 1
  • noun bogey dried nasal mucus 1
  • noun bogey evil spirit 1
  • noun plural bogey Golf. a score of one stroke over par on a hole. par1 (def 3). 1
  • noun plural bogey bogy1 (defs 1–3). 1
  • noun plural bogey Also, bogy, bogie. Military. an unidentified aircraft or missile, especially one detected as a blip on a radar screen. 1
  • abbreviation BOGEY bogie1 . 1
  • noun plural bogey a swim; bathe. 1
  • noun plural bogey a hobgoblin; evil spirit. 1
  • noun plural bogey anything that haunts, frightens, annoys, or harasses. 1
  • noun plural bogey something that functions as a real or imagined barrier that must be overcome, bettered, etc.: Fear is the major bogy of novice mountain climbers. A speed of 40 knots is a bogy for motorboats. 1
  • noun plural bogey Military. bogey1 (def 3). 1
  • verb with object bogey Golf. to make a bogey on (a hole): Arnold Palmer bogeyed the 18th hole. 1
  • verb without object bogey to swim; bathe. 1
  • noun bogey Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor. 1
  • noun bogey (archaic) The Devil. 0
  • noun bogey An object of terror; a bugbear. 0
  • noun bogey One of two sets of wheels under a train car. 0
  • noun bogey (Britain) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril. 0
  • noun bogey (engineering) A representative specimen, taken from the centre of a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics. 0
  • noun bogey (engineering) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition. 0
  • noun bogey (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). 0
  • noun bogey (golf) A score of one over par in golf. 0
  • verb bogey (golf) To make a bogey. 0
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