bogart (v.)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/11/2008 01:44 PM, Gregory McNamee wrote:
>I don't have the beginning of your thread, Joel, so this may already
>have been mentioned, but (IIRC) "bogart" came into widespread use
>after the movie Easy Rider appeared in 1969,
>with its soundtrack song
>by the Fraternity of Man, "Don't Bogart That Joint":
>
>Don't bogart that joint my friend
>Pass it over to me

For this sense (2. trans. orig. and chiefly U.S. To appropriate (a
marijuana cigarette) greedily or selfishly) the on-line OED's
earliest cite is exactly the above.  For sense 1, OED has 1966.  But
I think neither is quite the same as Natalie Angier's example.

Joel


>Don't bogart that joint my friend
>Pass it over to me
>
>Roll another one
>Just like the other one
>You've been holding on to it
>And I sure will like a hit
>
>[chorus]
>
>Roll another one
>Just like the other one
>That one's burned to the end
>Come on and be a real friend
>
>[chorus]
>
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