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

It certainly will never be again the bogy or oracle as which it had so long figured in our elections.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the moment that I found the bogy of conventionality potent enough with her to frighten her into keeping her word and marrying me, I had no fear for “to-morrow.”

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various