noun
- in golf, a score of one stroke over par on a hole
- a wheeled truck under a locomotive or railroad car
- an evil or mischievous spirit; a goblin
Usage: golf
Usage: railroad
Examples
- He made a bogie on the seventh hole after his ball landed in the sand trap.
- The golfer was disappointed to card three bogies during the tournament.
- The locomotive’s bogie needed repair after derailing on the curved track.
- Children were frightened by stories of bogies lurking in the dark forest.
- The radar operator reported an unidentified bogie approaching from the east.
- Air traffic control tracked the bogie until it was identified as a commercial aircraft.
- The old train’s bogies creaked as it rounded the mountain curve.