dope n 1: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess}, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] 2: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead] 3: carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States) [syn: cola, dope] 4: slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?" [syn: dope, poop, the skinny, low-down] v 1: take drugs to improve one's athletic performance 2: add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; "The resistors have been doped" 3: give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race" [syn: dope, dope up]

dope 1807, Amer.Eng., "sauce, gravy," from Du. doop "thick dipping sauce." Extension to "drug" is 1889, from practice of smoking semi-liquid opium preparation. Meaning "foolish, stupid person" is older (1851) and may have a sense of "thick-headed." Sense of "inside information" (1901) may come from knowing before the race which horse had been drugged to influence performance. Dope-fiend is attested from 1896.

dope I. noun Etymology: Dutch doop sauce, from dopen to dip; akin to Old English dyppan to dip Date: 1786 1. a. a thick liquid or pasty preparation b. a preparation for giving a desired quality to a substance or surface 2. absorbent or adsorbent material used in various manufacturing processes (as the making of dynamite) 3. a. (1) an illicit, habit-forming, or narcotic drug; especially marijuana (2) a preparation given to a racehorse to help or hinder its performance b. chiefly Southern a cola drink c. a stupid person 4. information especially from a reliable source <the inside dope> II. verb (doped; doping) Date: 1889 transitive verb 1. to treat or affect with dope; especially to give a narcotic to 2. figure out — usually used with out 3. to treat with a dopant intransitive verb to take dope • doper noun III. adjective Date: 1981 slang excellent — used as a generalized term of approval

dope
n. & v.
--n.
1 a varnish applied to the cloth surface of aeroplane parts to strengthen them, keep them airtight, etc.
2 a thick liquid used as a lubricant etc.
3 a substance added to petrol etc. to increase its effectiveness.
4 a sl. a narcotic; a stupefying drug. b a drug etc. given to a horse or greyhound, or taken by an athlete, to affect performance.
5 sl. a stupid person.
6 sl. a information about a subject, esp. if not generally known. b misleading information.
--v.
1 tr. administer dope to, drug.
2 tr. Electronics add an impurity to (a semiconductor) to produce a desired electrical characteristic.
3 tr. smear, daub; apply dope to.
4 intr. take addictive drugs.
Phrases and idioms:
dope out sl. discover.
Derivatives:
doper n.
Etymology: Du. doop sauce f. doopen to dip

dope (dopes, doping, doped) 1. Dope is a drug, usually an illegal drug such as marijuana or cocaine. (INFORMAL) N-UNCOUNT 2. If someone dopes a person or animal or dopes their food, they put drugs into their food or force them to take drugs. Anyone could have got in and doped the wine... I'd been doped with Somnolin... They've got him doped to the eyeballs. = drug VERB: V n, be V-ed with n, V-ed 3. If someone calls a person a dope, they think that the person is stupid. (INFORMAL) = idiot N-COUNT [disapproval]

dope dəup n. & v. --n. 1 a varnish applied to the cloth surface of aeroplane parts to strengthen them, keep them airtight, etc. 2 a thick liquid used as a lubricant etc. 3 a substance added to petrol etc. to increase its effectiveness. 4 a sl. a narcotic; a stupefying drug. b a drug etc. given to a horse or greyhound, or taken by an athlete, to affect performance. 5 sl. a stupid person. 6 sl. a information about a subject, esp. if not generally known. b misleading information. --v. 1 tr. administer dope to, drug. 2 tr. Electronics add an impurity to (a semiconductor) to produce a desired electrical characteristic. 3 tr. smear, daub; apply dope to. 4 intr. take addictive drugs. ødope out sl. discover. øødoper n. [Du. doop sauce f. doopen to dip]

Dope \Dope\, v. t. 1. To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; specif.: (a) To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. [Slang] (b) To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing. [Race-track Slang] 2. To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope. [Slang]

Dope \Dope\ (d[=o]p), n. [D. doop a dipping, fr. doopen to dip. Cf. Dip.] 1. Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc. 2. Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. [Slang or Cant] 3. An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps. 4. Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; sometimes, similar information concerning other sports. [Sporting Slang]

dope dəup n. 1 See dolt. 2 narcotic, drug, opiate, hallucinogen, psychedelic, Slang upper, downer: He was caught trying to smuggle dope past customs. 3 information, data, facts, news, details, story, scoop, Slang info, low-down, score, Brit gen, US and Canadian poop: The real dope on the minister is sensational!

333 Moby Thesaurus words for "dope": Boeotian, KO, Mickey Finn, account, acquaintance, add, addictive drug, alcohol, algebraize, analgesic, anesthetic, anesthetize, announcement, anoint, answer, backing, bedaze, benumb, benzine, besot, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, block, blue book, blunt, bootleg liquor, bottom, brass tacks, briefing, briquette, bulletin, burnable, butane, calculate, candy, carbon, cartridge, cast, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, charcoal, chloroform, chowderhead, chucklehead, cigarettes, cipher, clear up, clod, coal, coke, coldcock, color film, color negative film, combustible, communication, communique, compute, contraband, crack, dangerous drug, data, datum, deaden, debug, decipher, decode, desensitize, details, dimwit, directory, disentangle, dispatch, divide, divine, do, dolt, donkey, dope out, dose, downer, dowse for water, drug, drugs, dry plate, dull, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, embrocate, emulsion, enlightenment, entrance, essential facts, essentials, estimate, ethane, ethanol, etherize, evidence, explain, extract roots, facts, factual information, familiarization, fathom, figure, figure in, figure out, film, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, fortune-tell, frame, freeze, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, gen, general information, get, get right, gowk, guess, guess right, guidebook, hallucinogen, handout, hard drug, hard information, hard stuff, hariolate, have it, heptane, hexane, hit it, hop, hot goods, hypnotize, incidental information, inflammable, inflammable material, info, information, instruction, intelligence, interpret, isooctane, jet fuel, jewels, jobbernowl, junk, kayo, kerosene, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, knockout drop, knowledge, lackwit, lamebrain, lay out, light, lightweight, looby, loon, low-down, lull to sleep, magnetize, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make out, measure, medicate, mention, mesmerize, message, methane, methanol, microfilm, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, multiply, narcotic, narcotics, narcotize, natural gas, negative, news, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddle, noddy, notice, notification, numb, obtund, octane, oil, open the lock, opiate, orthochromatic film, pack, pain-killer, palsy, panchromatic film, paraffin, paralyze, peat, pentane, photographic paper, plate, plumb, poop, predict, prefigure, presage, presentation, printing paper, prognosticate, promotional material, proof, propane, propellant, prophesy, psych, psych out, psychedelic, publication, publicity, put, put to sleep, put under, puzzle out, ravel, ravel out, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reckon, release, report, resolve, riddle, rock to sleep, rocket fuel, roll, salve, scoop, score, sedate, sedative, sidelight, sleeping pill, smuggled goods, solve, soothsay, sort out, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, speculate, statement, stolen goods, story, stuff, stun, stupe, stupefy, stupid, subtract, take account of, tally, tell fortunes, tell the future, the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the goods, the information, the know, the particulars, the picture, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story, thickwit, trance, tranquilizer, transmission, tripack, turf, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, upper, vaticinate, vehicle, white book, white paper, witling, word, work, work out

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