bogy

Example Sentences

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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

Inflation is a bogy word that has almost passed out of the news in a day when businesses have so much unused capacity around.

From Time Magazine Archive

It certainly will never be again the bogy or oracle as which it had so long figured in our elections.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for the religious bogy, I personally believe most sincerely that it is a bogy.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert