bogey

5 definitions • 3 examples

in golf, the act of getting the ball into the hole in one shot (= hit) more than par (= the expected number) for that hole

something that causes fear among a lot of people, often without reason:

the bogey of unemployment

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(in golf) to score a bogey for a particular hole:

He bogeyed the sixth, but birdied the seventh.

something feared, esp. when the fear is not based on reason:

Too many economists are scared by the bogey of inflation, he says.