bogey

  • (noun): One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
  • (noun): An outlaw.
  • (noun): One who cheats others.
  • (noun): An enemy aircraft.
  • (noun): A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
  • (noun): An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.
  • (noun): (often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
  • (noun): A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
  • (noun): A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
  • (noun): A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
  • (noun): An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
  • (noun): A score of one over par on a hole.
  • (verb): To make a bogey.
  • (noun): A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
  • (noun): A swim or bathe; a bath.
  • (noun): One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; the structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi.
  • (noun): (Indian English, dated in UK) A railway carriage.
  • (noun): A toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when stroked against a hard edge, eg, the lip of container.
  • (noun): A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
  • (noun): Something suggestive of this material.
  • (noun): A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
  • (noun): (mildly derogatory) A bodyboarder.
  • Watch the local boogers charge it!