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

Ever since his Midwestern utilities empire collapsed in scandal in the 1930s, the late Samuel Insull has served a generation of writers as a bogy of financial skulduggery.

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

And really Tom did not know; but: the suspicious old bogy would not believe him.

From The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Goble, Warwick