1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 54:If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson.
(engineering) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
(engineering) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
(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)
