bogey

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.
2. n. A cause of annoyance or harassment.
3. n. Sports The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.
4. n. Sports A golf score of one stroke over par.
5. n. Slang An unidentified flying aircraft.
6. n. Slang A detective or police officer.
7. v. Sports To play (a hole in golf) scoring one stroke over par.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. See bogy, bogyism.
2. n. See bogie.

Wiktionary

1. n. archaic The Devil.
2. n. An object of terror; a bugbear.
3. n. One of two sets of wheels under a train car.
4. n. UK A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
5. n. engineering A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
6. n. engineering a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
7. n. military slang An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen, and often suspected to be hostile. (Also sometimes used as a synonym for bandit - an enemy aircraft)
8. n. golf A score of one over par in golf.
9. v. golf To make a bogey.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A goblin; a bugbear.
2. n. (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.
3. n. (Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an evil spirit
2. n. an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
3. v. to shoot in one stroke over par
4. n. (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole