Definition of bogart
bogart 
verb
- to steal, monopolize, or hog.
Don't bogart my cookies!
Submitted by Emily M., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan 13 1998.
Additions by Dan Day, MA, USA, Mar 12 1998
notes
- Origin: possibly during the 1960s as a drug reference. The band Fraternity of Man has a song called "Don't Bogart Me," circa the late 1960s. Lyrics include: "Don't bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me." It has been theorized that the term is an allusion to Humphry Bogart, an American actor who always had a cigarette hanging from his lips. To "bogart" a joint, then, would be letting it hang from one's lips without passing it on.
Submitted by Emily M., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan 13 1998.
- Another submitter suggests: Humphrey Bogart would cup a cigarette in his hand to shield it, and then drag emphatically upon it. "Bogarting" a joint means to pull heavily upon the cigarette while shielding it from would be partakers - not simply letting it hang from one's lips.
Submitted by T. B., Jan 03 2002.
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