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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bogie
    n 1: an evil spirit [syn: bogey, bogy, bogie]
    2: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: bogy,
       bogie, bogey]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. Bogeys. [Also bogie and bogy,
   plural bogies.]
   1. A goblin; a bugbear.

   Syn: bogeyman.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

              I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm.
                                                  Black.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. (Golf) a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly,
      the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for
      par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each
      hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be
      so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary
      first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard
      score is called par.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

   3. (Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations,
      such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be
      hostile.
      [PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bogie \Bo"gie\, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.]
   A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around
   a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a
   railway track.
   [1913 Webster]

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