bogart
1 Americanverb (used with object)
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to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing.
Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
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to bully or force.
He just bogarted his way into the elevator!
verb (used without object)
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a person who hogs or monopolizes something.
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a person who acts in a tough or aggressive way.
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Etymology
Origin of bogart
1965–70; in reference to Humphrey Bogart's typical movie role, a tough character with a cigarette
Example Sentences
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Yet Godard built his own career on the twin tenets of homage and upheaval, injecting his adoration for Humphrey Bogart into a film that would change the cinema forever, and continuing on to make more movies that eventually were nothing but allusions to other movies while being distinctively his own.
From Los Angeles Times
The original Committee for the First Amendment included actors such as Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Humphrey Bogart, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, who traveled to Washington in 1947 to oppose anti-Communist hearings targeting the film industry.
From Salon
Cinematic nods throughout the series reference another Humphrey Bogart classic, the 1954 romance “Sabrina,” in which Audrey Hepburn has a glow up in the French capital amid a love triangle between two brothers, and 1953’s “Roman Holiday,” in which Hepburn lops her hair into a bob and rides a Vespa before finding love.
From Los Angeles Times
There have also been rumours that the birds escaped across the country during the wrap party for the 1951 film The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
From BBC
“I thought I was going to stay in L.A. longer,” he told journalist Tom Bogart.
From Los Angeles Times
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