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bogart

The origin and history of bogart.

Etymology

From actor Humphrey Bogart, whose on-screen habit of keeping a cigarette dangling from his lips gave rise to 1960s slang for hogging a shared joint instead of passing it along, later broadened to hogging anything.

· First attested 1960

Class of 1960

bogart first entered the language around 1960. Other words from the same year:

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