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Bogart

Language; Slang

To monopolise or fail to pass on a joint or cigarette during communal smoking. This popular hippy term of the late 1960s was prompted by the actor Humphrey Bogart's habit in films of ...

Bogan

Language; Slang

(Australian) A member of a social group first identified by journalists in the 1970s, consisting of uneducated working-class young adults, roughly the equivalents of US trailer trash and the more ...

(British) To leave, go away. Nearly always used as an aggressive exclamation or instruction. A vulgar term that existed in armed-serv- ice use before becoming a vogue succes- sor to naff off around ...

Bogey

Language; Slang

1. (British) A police officer. Probably from the notion of the 'bogey man'. 2. An enemy aircraft or other enemy pres- ence; a service term from the notion of the 'bogey man' 3. (British) a ...