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

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

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

Man was no better for him and neither was God, but he remains still the great bogy man of Europe, a bogy great enough to have frightened Mr. Wells and marked him.

From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood