bogeynoun
uk/ˈbəʊ.ɡi/us/ˈboʊ.ɡi/bogey noun (GOLF)
[ C ] in golf, the act of getting the ball into the hole in one shot (= hit) more than par (= the expected number) for that hole
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Golf
- a hole in one idiom
- birdie
- bunker
- chip
- drive
- fairway
- golf ball
- golf course
- green
- hole
- iron
- match play
- mini-golf
- miniature golf
- par
- putt
- putting green
- tee (sth) up
- tee off
- yip
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bogey noun (FEAR)
[ C usually singular ] also bogie, bogy something that causes fear among a lot of people, often without reason:
the bogey of unemployment
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Fear & phobias
- acrophobia
- aerophobia
- agoraphobic
- alarm
- arachnophobia
- chill
- claustrophobia
- cold sweat
- dread
- fearful
- fright
- homophobia
- horror
- hydrophobia
- hydrophobic
- panic
- panic stations
- phobia
- terror
- xenophobe
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bogey noun (NOSE)
[ C ] UK informal US booger a piece of dried mucus from inside the nose
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Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
- beaded
- bile
- bogy
- bucket
- discharge
- dribble
- expectorate
- jism
- lacteal
- lymphatic
- mucus
- phlegm
- pus
- snot
- spat
- sperm
- spermatozoon
- spit
- spunk
- sweat buckets idiom
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bogeyverb [ T ]
uk/ˈbəʊ.ɡi/us/ˈboʊ.ɡi/(in golf) to score a bogey for a particular hole:
He bogeyed the sixth, but birdied the seventh.
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Golf
- a hole in one idiom
- birdie
- bunker
- chip
- drive
- fairway
- golf ball
- golf course
- green
- hole
- iron
- match play
- mini-golf
- miniature golf
- par
- putt
- putting green
- tee (sth) up
- tee off
- yip
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