bogy

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Lopez-Chacarra overcame a triple bogy on the long par-4 seventh and tied Sargent for the lead with a short birdie on the par-4 15th.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022

In the 1950s, 3D was wheeled out to upstage television, the industry bogy of that era.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010

Ever since his Midwestern utilities empire collapsed in scandal in the 1930s, the late Samuel Insull has served a generation of writers as a bogy of financial skulduggery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dilemma posed by segregation in Southern public schools, the bogy of federal control following U.S. aid, make the issue hard to handle.

From Time Magazine Archive

What the world calls morality is a bogy to frighten foolish people.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph