bogart

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noun

An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.

“Don’t bogart the can, man.”

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Meanings

bogart1

nounbogart (plural bogarts)

plural bogarts

  1. slangAn obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.

    What a bogart... Hey, share some of the wealth, buddy

    2003 April 27, feklar, “Speechless”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    And it's not even going to share with you?? What a Bogart!!! LOL

    2004 March 22, Monkey, “Good morning from this peg person”, in alt.tv.general-hospital (Usenet)

    I just thought Mike was getting high in the corner, and Heather put her camera down to run over and demand that he not be such a Bogart.

    2003 September 23, Richard Lee, “Conclusion to Blair Witch”, in rec.arts.horror.movies (Usenet)
verbbogart (third-person singular simple present bogarts, present participle bogarting, simple past and past participle bogarted)

present singular third person bogarts · participle present bogarting · participle past bogarted · past bogarted

  1. slangtransitiveTo selfishly take or keep something; to hog; especially to hold a joint (marijuana) dangling between the lips instead of passing it on.

    Don’t bogart the can, man.

    3 more examples

    Dude, don’t bogart the chocolate fudge!

    Don't bogart that joint, my friend / Pass it over to me

    1968, Elliot Ingber and Larry Wagner, “Don't Bogart Me”, in The Fraternity of Man

    There are other ways in which consumer AI is weird. Take the AI music apps, which are predicated on the idea that there are people in the world who want to make music but simply haven’t taken the time to learn how to play an instrument. There are likely very few of those people! Musicians aren’t bogarting creativity — they are people who enjoy making music. The rest of us just enjoy listening, which is an end in itself.

    2026 April 20, Elizabeth Lopatto, “Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want”, in The Verge, retrieved 21 Apr 2026

    Synonyms: hog

  2. informaltransitiveTo obtain by bullying, intimidation; be a tough guy.

    He tried to bogart his way in.

    3 more examples

    “He comes trying to bogart his way into my house and he smashes two of my wWindows, two great big windows.”

    1990, Stephen Dobyns, The House on Alexandrine, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 152

    David studied Kel for a moment and considered the question. His former running buddy was a big man who'd learned early how to use his size to intimidate people. To bogart his way past resistance to instant gratification, whether it was for advantage in a one-on-one at the hoops or with a woman in bed.

    2013, Sandra Kitt, Family Affairs, Open Road Media, →ISBN

    He sat patiently and rode it out, inching his way along, drinking a Red bull and listening to the news radio until he was able to bogart his way over to the lane on his right that was moving at a faster pace.

    2014, Travon Pugh, Have Heart Have Money, Queen C's Publishing, →ISBN, page 33
  3. informalintransitiveTo behave like a bully.

Bogart2

proper noun
  1. An English surname from Dutch, most famously borne by American actor Humphrey Bogart.
verbBogart (third-person singular simple present Bogarts, present participle Bogarting, simple past and past participle Bogarted)

present singular third person Bogarts · participle present Bogarting · participle past Bogarted · past Bogarted

  1. To behave in a manner similar to the on-screen characters portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo selfishly take or keep something; to hog; especially to hold a joint (marijuana) dangling between the lips instead of passing it on.

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Origin

bogart · noun, verb

From actor Humphrey Bogart, from Dutch surname Bogaard (“keeper of an orchard”), from boomgaard (“treegarden, orchard”), cognate to English boom (“piece of wood”)/beam + garden. Senses of selfishness and excess evolved from the original 1960s use meaning “keep a joint in the mouth instead of passing it on”, recalling the actor’s signature practice of keeping a cigarette dangling from his mouth even while speaking. Other senses of “bullying” or “tough guy” also originated in the 1960s and recall the actor’s various movie roles. Another potential origin of the vernacular comes from Humphrey Bogart's role in the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) in which his character, Dobbs, becomes increasingly selfish with the gold mine that he shares with his two partners. Or it could be from The Big Sleep (1946) in which Lauren Bacall lights a cigarette for him while he is tied up, forcing him to dangle the cigarette from his lips for the rest of the scene. According to an interview with "The Fraternity of Man" bandmember Lawrence "Stash" Wagner, he "got down on my knees and begged" the ABC record label to put their song "Don't Bogart That Joint" on a single, agreeing to change the title to "Don't Bogart Me." On the origin on the song, he said, "The band was smoking some pot in our rehearsal house up in Laurel Canyon, when Elliot [Ingber] turned to me and said, 'Hey man, don’t bogart that thing.' I asked him, what does ‘bogart’ mean? He said, “You know, like Humphrey Bogart always had a cigarette in his hand or hanging from his lips when talking. Well, you were hanging onto that joint while your lips were flapping.' I said, 'Cool, we should write a song using Bogart.'" Source.

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Bogart · proper noun, verb

From the Dutch surname Bogaert, derived from bogaard, contraction of boomgaard (“orchard”), from boom (“tree”) + gaard (“garden”). Doublet of Baumgart, Bangert, and Bungert, all from German.

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Translations

Czech jockovat
  • jockovatselfishly take or keep something; hog
Esperanto elpreni
  • elpreniget something by bullying, intimidation; be a tough guy
German Platzhirsch
  • Platzhirschattention hog
Spanish acaparar, arrebatar
  • acapararselfishly take or keep something; hog
  • arrebatarget something by bullying, intimidation; be a tough guy

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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