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by Joe Germuska on August 3rd, 2004
Excerpted from WordOrigins.org:
"Several people have emailed me asking how Humphrey Bogart's name became associated with a term meaning selfishness. Ah, how soon we forget the intricacies of '60s drug culture. The selfish connotation comes from hogging a marijuana cigarette. Someone who kept the joint in their mouth, hanging from their lip like Bogey, would be bogarting the joint. Instead of bogarting, one should pass it on to another. The term can be used for hoarding items other than pot."
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorb.htm#Bogart
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You shouldn't bogart that can man.
by Scottythinks on July 22nd, 2005