3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: bogie n 1: an evil spirit [syn: {bogey}, {bogy}] 2: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: {bogy}, {bogey}]
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