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DOUBLE BOGEY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

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