DOUBLE-BOGEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double-bogey mean? 

• DOUBLE-BOGEY (noun)
  The noun DOUBLE-BOGEY has 1 sense:

1. (golf) a score of two strokes over par for a hole

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLE-BOGEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("double-bogey" is a kind of...):

score (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest)

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)

Derivation:

double bogey (to shoot two strokes over par)