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 reason for the fears about churches accepting federal funds is that worrisome ecclesiastical bogy, Erastianism*�state control of the church.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Then it was used as a bogy by small politicians.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring