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bogies

Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. Bogeys. [Also bogie and bogy, plural bogies.]

  1. A goblin; a bugbear.

    Syn: bogeyman.

    I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy.
    --Wm. Black.

  2. (Golf) a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.

  3. (Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.

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bogies

n. (plural of bogie English)

Usage examples of "bogies".

But Trapdoor had gone in alone, chasing the bogies which had appeared over the captured airfield.

He was beginning to have a very unpleasant suspicion about those two bogies, and he suddenly felt entirely too junior for what was about to happen.

Unfortunately, the bogies, whoever and whatever they truly were, were now only five light-minutes back.

Scheherazade was up to eleven thousand KPS and accelerating at a hundred and fifty gravities, but the bogies were hitting over forty-three thousand and pulling five hundred gees.

At this rate, they wouldn't spot any bogies until the targets were right on top of them.

Taggart's aircraft dropped astern, taking up a position between the bogies and Batman's plane.

Dixie reported that the That formation was still pursuing the fleeing bogies and was now approaching U Feng.

Dixie's VDI showed plenty of bogies but they were no longer within close combat range of one another.

The bogies were coming out of Bombay, one hundred fifty miles to the northeast.

Tombstone studied the bogies, repeated to his screen from Dixie's console.

It was all happening too fast The best guess was that the incoming bogies were reconnaissance aircraft.

On the screen, new bogies were appearing, separating as if by magic from the larger blips marking the unknowns.

We are tracking estimated twelve to sixteen bogies, now at three-five miles.

There were plenty of targets in the area, but the unidentified bogies seemed to be drawing off toward the east and Batman wasn't about to follow them, not when there were at least ten of them and only one of him.

The Vipers were east of the Eagles and not threatened by the bogies coming in from the south, but it was a reminder that the American defensive formation was as porous as a sieve.