verb
bogart
verb
1
Informal: to selfishly hog or keep something instead of sharing it.
"Don't bogart the remote — everyone wants a turn."
"He bogarted the last slice of pizza."
How to Use Bogart
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTo greedily hold onto something that's meant to be shared.
When to use it
Informal, originally associated with 1960s counterculture slang.
Common pairings
bogart the joint
bogart the remote
Word Forms
bogarted past tense, Bogarted past tense, bogarts plural, bogarts singular, Bogarts singular
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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.