Usually means: One over par in golf.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bogey: Merriam-Webster
  2. bogey, bogey, bogey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bogey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bogey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bogey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bogey, bogey: Wordnik
  7. bogey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bogey, bogey: Wiktionary
  9. bogey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bogey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bogey: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bogey: Dictionary.com
  13. bogey (1), bogey (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bogey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bogey (brevity code), Bogey (disambiguation), Bogey (golf), Bogey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bogey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bogey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bogey: Rhymezone
  19. Bogey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bogey: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. bogey: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bogey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bogey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bogey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bogey: bizterms.net
  4. Bogey: Investopedia
  5. bogey: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bogey: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BOGEY: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bogey: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. bogey: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Bogey: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See bogeyed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
noun:  A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
noun:  (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
noun:  (British, slang) A police officer.
noun:  (engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
noun:  (military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
noun:  (military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
noun:  (golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
verb:  (golf, ambitransitive) To make a bogey on (a particular hole).
noun:  (UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
verb:  (Australia) To swim; to bathe.
noun:  (Australia) A swim or bathe; a bath.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  (informal) Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American film and stage actor.
noun:  (UK) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril. [(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”) [(Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of bogie (“hand-operated truck or trolley”) [(Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.]
noun:  (British, dated, India, rail transport) Alternative spelling of bogie (“railway carriage”) [(Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.]

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