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n. - An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft; An evil spirit; (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole v. - To shoot in one stroke over par.

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  • She communist bogey is an American stunt to distract the attention of the people of
  • He reeled off six consecutive pars before taking bogey from a greenside bunker at No. 8.
  • - U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen was at 4-under until he took a double bogey from the back bunker on the par-3 12th.
  • I had a 30-foot birdie putt and managed to convert that into a bogey, which is really annoying.
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  • A "bogey" is an unidentified flying object, a "bogy" is a goblin or evil spirit, while "boggy" means waterlogged.
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