bogie

A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.

One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle.

1878. Bogie Trucks for Railway Locomotives, &c.: [...] Fig. 1 is a cross section and Fig. 2 a section plan of a bogie. A curved casting a is fixed to the engine and a wrought-iron beam or beams b are connected to the bogie frames by links c fitted with or without springs d.

The soil all along this portion of the route is so elastic and the line so straight and level that the train goes humming along without jar or vibration, and the sensation in these cars, with their six-wheeled bogies and well arranged springs, is more like what one imagines flying to be than a mere matter-of-fact railway journey.

A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.

Although most A320s have two wheels on each of their main gear, a few built for the Indian market have four-wheel bogies, halving the amount of weight on each wheel and allowing the aircraft to use runways that couldn't withstand the ground pressure from a standard A320.

A railway carriage.

The bogie coaches which he spoke of last year had been brought or were being brought into active service, but they had no further wagon stock available.

Although we took our eight bogies along to Whitstable at 60 m.p.h., and made a clean start from there, after Herne Bay the engine primed badly on Blacksole Bank and nearly stopped before we got over the top. Then we ran like the wind across the marshes with half-regulator, 30 per cent cut-off, and the engine blowing off.

A soapbox racing vehicle.

A marijuana cigarette; a joint.

bogies: marijuana cigarettes.

We normally dropped off at Shooters Billiards where we'd play pool and arcades, but sometimes left to do other shit. Shooters was a good lie to our parents when we came home smelling like smoke, because people smoked in the place, so we'd get away with smoking bogies or weed.

Alternative spelling of bogey.

All of a sudden he heard a terrible scream ahead, and he thought it must be the bogie singing his dirge.

They could not, it was said, keep Scandinavian bogies and the Scriptures separate in their puzzled brains.

Alternative spelling of bogey.

Alternative spelling of bogey.

Alternative spelling of bogey.

Alternative spelling of bogey.

Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.