Bogey

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Bogie is a wheeled wagon or trolley.

Bogey or Bogie may refer to:

  • Bogey Orangutan, a member of Shirt Tales
  • a hobgoblin (fairy)
    • a bogeyman, boogeyman, boogyman, or bogyman, a legendary ghost-like monster
    • a boggart, a household spirit
    • a ghost
  • the military brevity code for a radar or visual air contact whose identity is unknown
  • a piece of dried or partly dried nasal mucus in UK slang (US slang: booger)
  • a golfing term for "one over par"
  • Humphrey Bogart (Bogie), American actor
  • asoap-box cart, in NW England in the 1950s and 60s
  • a drummer or dancer in the Jack in the green British folk festivals
  • a representative or typical specimen, with average or design centre characteristics - usually used to describe the centre of the distribution of a characteristic or several characteristics of manufactured parts. "The design has been optimised for a bogey device, and should work satisfactorily with any part meeting the maker's specifications". Also "bogey values" - expected measurements from a typical device.
  • a cigarette

[edit] See also

  • booger (word), about the etymology of the related American slang term