Meaning & use
Bogart
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To selfishly keep or hog something, especially without sharing, for longer than is fair.
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Quit bogarting the remote and let someone else pick a show.
He bogarted the last slice of pizza before anyone else got one.
A note on using this word
The informal verb is said to derive from actor Humphrey Bogart's on-screen habit of letting a cigarette dangle from his lips without passing it along.
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