'Bogie' definitions:
Definition of 'bogie'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Bogie'
From: GCIDE
- Bogie \Bo"gie\, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.] A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bogie'
From: GCIDE
- Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. Bogeys. [Also bogie and bogy, plural bogies.]
- 1. A goblin; a bugbear.
- Syn: bogeyman. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm. Black. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 3. (Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile. [PJC]