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English Dictionary: Bogeys by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. {Bogeys}. [Also {bogie}.]
      1. A goblin; a bugbear.
  
                     I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm.
                                                                              Black.
  
      2. (Golf) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole,
            against which players compete; -- said to be so called
            because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate
            player called Colonel Bogey.
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