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

"If '49 has a class bogy, it is ulcers."

From Time Magazine Archive

Necessity What spoils this picture of constant improvement is the sneaking suspicion that the improvement is not always real�in other words, the old bogy of planned obsolescence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old-maid nature is traceable in me in this further respect, that I feel a perfectly unendurable terror of ghosts, and go on like some little child whom its nurse has frightened with a bogy.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm