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bogon

bogon noun: the imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.

Noun

bogon (plural bogons)

  1. (slang) The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
    • Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet)
  2. (slang) An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.

Forms of bogon

pluralbogons

Origin of bogon

From bogus (“fake, phony”) + -on (“suffix used to form names of elementary particles or fundamental units”).

Words formed from bogon

Phrases with bogon

Questions about bogon

What does bogon mean?
Bogon means the imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
What part of speech is bogon?
Bogon is a noun.
What is the plural of bogon?
The plural of bogon is bogons.

Words near bogon in the dictionary

  1. Bogomilist
  2. Bogomilists
  3. Bogomils
  4. BogoMIPS
  5. Bogomol
  6. bogon
  7. bogon filter
  8. bogon filters
  9. bogong
  10. bogong moth
  11. bogong moths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bogon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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