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Bogie is a wheeled wagon or trolley.

Bogey or Bogie may refer to:

  • Hobgoblin (fairy)
    • Bogeyman, boogeyman, boogyman, or bogyman, a legendary ghost-like monster
    • Boggart, a household spirit
    • Ghost
  • The military brevity code for a radar or visual air contact whose identity is unknown
  • Nasal mucus, in UK slang (US slang: booger)
  • a golfing term for "one over par"
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Soap-box cart, in NW England in the 1950s and 60s
  • A drummer or dancer in the Jack in the green British folk festivals
  • a representative or typical specimin, with average or design centre characteristics - usually used to describe the centre of a distribution of manufactured parts. " The design has been optimised for a bogey device, and should work satisfactorily with any part meeting the makers specifications" also "bogey values" - expected measurements from a typical device.
  • A cigarette

See also

  • Booger (word), about the etymology of the related American slang term