DOUBLE BOGEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double bogey mean? 

• DOUBLE BOGEY (verb)
  The verb DOUBLE BOGEY has 1 sense:

1. to shoot two strokes over par

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE BOGEY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLE BOGEY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To shoot two strokes over par

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "double bogey" is one way to...):

shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

double-bogey ((golf) a score of two strokes over par for a hole)