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Kevin & Bean (local DJs) play what seems to be a Country Western Song at the end of their show, called "Don't Bogart That Joint, My Friend." I always wondered how a 40's actor got his name attached to a word meaning "Not sharing a joint." Well, thanks to Merriam-Webster, now I know.

bogart \BOH-gart\ : verb

1: bully, intimidate
*2: to use or consume without sharing
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Example sentence:
"[The dog] lay dazed on her side on the kitchen floor, bogarting a bone, dozens more scattered around her like some dog play set she'd grown bored with." (Douglas Bauer, The Boston Globe, July 25, 2001)

Did you know?
The legendary film actor Humphrey Bogart was known for playing a range of tough characters in a series of films throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The African Queen . The men he portrayed often possessed a cool, hardened exterior that occasionally let forth a suggestion of romantic or idealistic sentimentality. Bogart also had a unique method of smoking cigarettes in these pictures — letting the butt dangle from his mouth without removing it until it was almost entirely consumed. It is believed that this habit inspired the current meaning of "bogart," which was once limited to the phrase "Don't bogart that joint [marijuana cigarette]," but can now be applied to almost anything, from food to physical space (as on a beach).

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