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  • verb Present participle of bogart.

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Examples

  • A little maturity would go a long way in this town's film industry - from Mr. & Mrs. Tucci not "bogarting" casting calls, nor using legacy and elite connections to maintain business-as-usual in St. Louis 'film community, to little guys who wanna be big but refuse to work for it.

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • A little maturity would go a long way in this town's film industry - from Mr. & Mrs. Tucci not "bogarting" casting calls, nor using legacy and elite connections to maintain business-as-usual in St. Louis 'film community, to little guys who wanna be big but refuse to work for it.

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • This kind of bogarting was common among lawmakers on the JEC, which includes members from both the legislative bodies President Lyndon Johnson once defined to future President George H.W. Bush as, respectively, "chicken salad and chicken shit."

    Reason Magazine Tim Cavanaugh 2010

  • Dangle a few strips of bacon over drain to see if maybe the sink is just being difficult because you're bogarting all the bacon.

    Jilly Gagnon: Bacon It Better Jilly Gagnon 2011

  • Though part of me gets twitchy after so long and is like “Hey I wish I had an opportunity to play one of those Paizo APs, the other group sessions are bogarting all of them”, this one is still fun!

    State Of Our Campaign – The Lighthouse « Geek Related 2010

  • Dangle a few strips of bacon over drain to see if maybe the sink is just being difficult because you're bogarting all the bacon.

    Jilly Gagnon: Bacon It Better Jilly Gagnon 2011

  • Has western culture gutted itself of spirituality so badly that attemps to deal with that inevitably have to begin with bogarting stuff from elsewhere?

    poetry month #4 = sunday morning badu ciderpress 2009

  • Really, seriously, was Jennifer Palmieri bogarting the CAP thinking cap when MattY wrote this?

    Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Beck’s HLN Replacement Allready Beating Him in the Ratings 2009

  • One, bogarting a cigarette, talks of his taste for danger and the other, a finger at his lips, reveals his sense of the secret.

    Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011

  • Endless grandstanding on CSPAN, bogarting mics to advance party spin, hyperbole, rote talking points and obstructionism don't save people's homes and create needed jobs.

    Linda Milazzo: Will Marcy Winograd Pull a Sestak and Beat Jane Harman in the June 8th California Primary? 2010

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