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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl {Bogeys}. [Also {bogie}.] 1. A goblin; a bugbear. I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm. Black. 2. (Golf) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bogie n 1: an evil spirit [syn: {bogey}, {bogy}] 2: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: {bogy}, {bogey}]
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