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Definition of Bogart

Bogart    Featured Word

verb

  • to steal, monopolize, or hog.
    Don't Bogart my cookies!

    by Emily M., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan 13 1998.

  • to force.
    He Bogarted himself right in front of us.
    Don't try to Bogart me into doing anything.

    by Bill M., Toledo, OH, USA, Sep 07 2003.

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  • 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."

    by Dan Day, MA, USA, Mar 12 1998.

  • Possibly from the movie The Roaring Twenties. In the movie, Jimmy Cagney offers Hymphry Bogart his cigarette to share Bogart smokes the entire thing.

    by Geoffrey W., Jul 14 2004.

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