Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 10, 2024 is: bogart \BOH-gahrt\ verb To bogart something is to use or consume it without sharing. // Nelson advised his friends not to bogart all the snacks before the rest of the party guests arrived. [See the entry >](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bogart) Examples: "Producers of individual shows should not be allowed to shape any content but their own; otherwise, the telecast winds up being hijacked by beamed-in celebrities singing songs from terrible musicals no one’s yet seen. And as for those stage-swarming investors? Let’s ban them too. The awards they bogart belong to the authors." — Jesse Green, The New York Times, 2 June 2021 Did you know? The legendary film actor [Humphrey Bogart](https://www.britannica.com/biography/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](https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Maltese-Falcon-film-1941), [Casablanca](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Casablanca-film-by-Curtiz), and [The African Queen](https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-African-Queen-film-1951). 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](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joint)," as popularized by a song on the soundtrack to the film [Easy Rider](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Easy-Rider). Today, bogart can be applied to hogging almost anything.