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🙅 A selfish person 🙅 To not share
to bogart

to bogart

8 9.3
To keep something for yourself and not let others use it
  • verb
  • /ˈboʊɡɑrt/
  • Slang
translation icon : acaparar
  • Don't bogart that!
  • Hey, don't bogart
  • bogart that can, man

Everywhere we go, she bogarts all the cup holders.

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Examples

Synonyms

to hoard
vsto bogart
45 4.8

To collect and keep large amounts of food or other things for future use

is about keeping things meant to be shared now not secret long storage
to bogard
vsto bogart
  • Slang
1 9.9

To take or keep something that should be shared with others

is about keeping shared items from others rather than general taking

Antonyms

to share
∞ 1.0

To let other people use or have part of something

to distribute
87 2.0

Give things to several people or places

How Selfish

to hoard
45 4.8
to bogart
  • Slang
8 9.3
to keep
∞ 1.0
to share
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bogart infinitive
bogarted past
bogarted past participle
bogarting present participle
bogarts third person singular

Etymology

Bogart as a verb comes from the same idea: people saw Humphrey Bogart holding a cigarette instead of passing it, and a popular story says his name became a way to say 'hog' something. So to bogart something is to selfishly keep it and not let others use it.