don't bogart that joint

BARBARA HILL HUDSON BHHUDSON at GROVE.IUP.EDU
Thu Apr 29 15:20:16 UTC 1999


In my neighborhood when I was growing up, "to bogart" meant to muscle in on
something the way Humphrey Bogart did in gangster movies.  I would read the
expression to mean: Don't snatch my joint and hold it overlong like you're some
kind of gangster or something..."

Barbara Hill Hudson
Department of English
IUP
Indiana, PA



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