bogy

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Lopez-Chacarra overcame a triple bogy on the long par-4 seventh and tied Sargent for the lead with a short birdie on the par-4 15th.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022

In the 1950s, 3D was wheeled out to upstage television, the industry bogy of that era.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010

The bogy of recession that had haunted everyone for four years was not completely laid, but it was a vanishing specter.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dilemma posed by segregation in Southern public schools, the bogy of federal control following U.S. aid, make the issue hard to handle.

From Time Magazine Archive

No more signs of that old sea bogy, and like enough we shan’t get a squint at it again.”

From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)