Sekirov Dictionary

dope

UK [dəʊp]US [doʊp]

noun 12
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 5

noun12

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(slang) illegal drugs that people take to feel good
- Do you remember me? / How we used to be / Helpless and happy and blind? / Sunk without hope / In a haze of good dope / And cheap wine? — 1968
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(slang) An opiate, now particularly heroin.
- Here's a cure for all your troubles / Here's an end to all distress / It's the old dope peddler / With his powdered happiness — 1953
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(slang) Marijuana.
- (Senator): Well good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have! (Farmer): 'Taint corn. It's dope. — 1981
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(slang, disapproving) A stupid person.
- The reasons why this verification is made by her and not by the defendant is because he is a dope and a fat-head and hasn't sense enough to do it himself. — 1902
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(slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
- What's the latest dope on the stock market?
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Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- Use a good pipe dope on the NPT threads. When applying pipe dope do not put any on the first two threads from the end. Always put dope on the male thread—never on the female thread. — 1977
Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
(US) Dessert topping.
(Appalachia) A soft drink.
Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
Acronym of data on previous engagement.
An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

verb5

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To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.
- The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use. — 2015
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(slang) To affect with drugs.
- Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. "Talk is cheap," said Long Bill Hodge. "What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night." — 1915
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
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To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
- Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom. — 2011
(slang, old-fashioned) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

adjective1

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(slang) Amazing; cool.
- That party was dope!

forms

doped · doping · dopes · DOPEs · doper · dopest

Phrases with dope

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