bogy
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈboʊɡi/
- Jargon
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bogy
- Bogy on your right side!
Examples
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Bogy coming back around!
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Bogies inbound.
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Yankee One, you got a bogy on your six.
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Bogies - 4 o'clock, high, coming from the left side!
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See that bogy, wizard.
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Bogies!
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Bogies are breaching the atmosphere from Finland down the North American seaboard.
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Bogies inbound, twelve o'clock.
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The radar detected a bogy approaching from the east, setting off alarms in the control room.
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Our fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the bogy that crossed into controlled airspace.
Synonyms
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4.4
An object in the sky that people cannot identify, often thought to come from other planets
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9.6
An unknown aircraft on radar that may be an enemy
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5.7
A flying object seen in the sky whose origin is not known and often thought to be from space
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bogy for an unidentified aircraft grew from an old name for a scary creature, the familiar bogey in 'bogeyman'. Pilots began to call any 'unknown' blip that might be an 'enemy' a bogy, so the word came to mean an unidentified plane.