bogie

Noun
Synonyms: bogeybogy

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. an evil spiritSynonyms: bogeybogy
  2. an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraftSynonyms: bogybogey
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. Bogeys. [Also bogie and bogy, plural bogies.]

1.A goblin; a bugbear.

Syn: bogeyman. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

I have become a sort of bogey— a kill-joy. --Wm. Black.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

3.(Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile. [PJC]


Bogie \Bo"gie\, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.] A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track. [1913 Webster]
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