bogey
bogey
Definition
bo·gey (bō′gē; for 1, usually bo̵og′ē)
noun pl. -·geys
- bogy
Etymology: after Col. Bogey (named from a popular music hall refrain), imaginary partner assumed to play a first-rate game
Golf- par, esp. for an average player: a former meaning
- one stroke more than par on a hole
transitive verb -·geyed, -·gey·ing
Golf to score one over par on (a given hole)
bogey
Usage Examples
Object
- hole: He bogeyed the 12th hole, allowing Furyk to tie him briefly.
Preposition: on
- hole: Aoki finished with a double bogey on the hole.
Converse of object
- make: I shouldn't have made a bogey all week, " added Thorpe, who joined the Senior PGA Tour this year.
- include: Transport Solution Davis contracted to build and deliver to site in Ireland 146 rail wagons and spares including 108 bogies.
- take: But his drive found the right rough on the 18th and he took bogey.
Adjective modifier
- triple: If you hit a triple bogey at golf, the next hole can be a birdie.
- double: Carmen who played the front nine solidly in both rounds rued a double bogey six on the long 12th hole in both rounds.
- rear: So a configuration of 0-6-0 meant that there were no forward or rear bogies, just three pairs of driven wheels.
- old: Here the older bogey of the night has been found out!
- new: This actually reflects the reality as British rolling stock with new bogies runs on New Zealand's 42 " gage with no problems.
Modifies a noun
- bird: Hope to catch up with this bogey bird on a winter trip to the south coast.
- side: The Yorkshire outfit are a bit of a bogey side for the Sky Blues who have only won sixteen times in 76 meetings.
- man: Captain Swing didn't actually exist he was the laborer's version of the bogey man.
- team: We seem to have become their bogey team, which is nice!
- time: The 2006 bogey times are the current class record at the start of each meeting with 18 seconds added.
Modifying Another Word
- double: He finished tied for 16th place as his game suddenly left him after double bogeying the par five seventh hole.
Noun used with modifier
- trailer: Roger would also like to hear from anyone spare Class 117 trailer bogies.
- motor: A pair of class 25's - etched brass kits by 3mm Scale Model Railways with Lima motor bogies.
- accommodation: Currently resting on temporary accommodation bogies, its own are under overhaul in the mechanical shop at Kidderminster.
- power: Thus a four-car train would require two power bogies, one in each DM car.
