Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Bogart, Humphrey DeForest 1899-1957. American actor who played reticent, tough, but ultimately kind-hearted heroes in films such as Casablanca (1942) and The African Queen (1951), for which he won an Academy Award.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See boggard, 4.
Wiktionary
- n. An English surname. Most famous representative is probably American actor Humphrey Bogart.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, famous movie actor; most commonly called
Humphrey Bogart ; b. 1899, d. 1957.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States film actor (1899-1957)
Etymologies
- From the Dutch surname Bogaert, derived from bogaard, short for boomgaard ("orchard"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Still, Bogart is masterfulas always, and the final courtroom speech prefigures later cinema courtroom barnstorming including Compulsion, A Time To Kill, and dozens more.”
“It seems unlikely that Humphrey Bogart is weeping in heaven at the lost chance to appear in a movie whose Eureka moment is the creation of the "relationship status" function.”
“An FBI agent says the signal from one of Zinkhan's cell phones helped police find the Jeep in Bogart, which is a rural town about 60 miles east of Atlanta.”
“Different members of the Anderson crew started going to shows in Cincinnati sometimes, to a club called Bogart's, that had some of the bigger punk and new wave bands play.”
“I was called Bogart's Hat Shop in Boulder, Colorado.”
“He was scowling in an attempt to "Bogart" or intimidate me.”
“The Burnetts’ dog, a big German shepherd called Bogart, began to bark two houses down.”
“Codenamed 'Bogart', Update 1.2 for Burnout Paradise is set to fix numerous bugs when it's released on April 24th ...”
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