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English Dictionary: bogie by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bogie
n
  1. an evil spirit
    Synonym(s): bogey, bogy, bogie
  2. an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
    Synonym(s): bogy, bogie, bogey
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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