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

Ironsi proposed to deal with the old bogy of tribal rivalry by demoting Nigeria's four semiautonomous regions to "provinces," and by banning the old regional parties.

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

The only thing to kill this bogy is to have plenty of rain, and plenty of rain had fallen on the Little Crow, too much at times.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar