dope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dəʊp]
ipa: [doʊp]
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: dopes
Etymology: From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen. Unrelated to dopamine.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1977, Robert O. Parmley, Standard Handbook of Fastening and Joining, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 247:
glosses: Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
glosses: An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1968, Roger Waters, “Incarceration Of A Flower Child”, performed by Marianne Faithfull, published 1999:
glosses: Any of various recreational substances
examples: text: If you are at all bright, don't be a grind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.
ref: 1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, in The Naughty-Naughtian, page 118:
text: But she went her way. Not until she accompanied a girl to an opium joint to discover whether dope had the merits claimed for it as a deadener of pain and a producer of happiness—not until then did Freddie come in person.
ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
text: 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
ref: 1953, Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”, in Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, published 1981, page 18:
text: We watched as he got his works and squirted water out first, then stuck the tip of the needle into the dope and sucked it up before finding a vein and sticking it into his arm.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Any of various recreational substances:
An opiate, now particularly heroin.
examples: text: (Senator): Well good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have!
(Farmer): 'Taint corn. It's dope.
ref: 1981 September 26, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (comic):
text: Some people say that dope kills brain cells, but I can't figure out how they found that out. I mean, how do you tell if a brain cell is dead and how do you tell what killed it? I've probably wasted a lot more brain cells through booze than through dope.
ref: 1983 March 28, “Smokin'”, in The Breeze, James Madison University, Readers' Forum, page 19:
text: She had gotten pregnant while stoned, had undoubtedly decided to marry Roger Finney while stoned, and Peter knew for a fact that she had left Reed (carrying a one-point-forget-it grade average) because there was too much dope floating around and she just couldn’t say no to it.
ref: 1996, Stephen King, Desperation:
text: At a suburban station, there were kids hanging around smoking dope, as ticketless entry through the exit doors is easy for them.
ref: 2024 May 29, Christian Wolmar, “The good and bad sides of the Parisian Metro”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 44:
glosses: Any of various recreational substances:
Marijuana.
examples: text: What's the latest dope on the stock market?
text: I got thru the lines and talked with the Captain and got all the Dope.^([sic])
ref: 1917 October 25, Ernest Hemingway, “To Clarence Hemingway”, in Sandra Spanier, Robert W. Trogdon, editors, The letters of Ernest Hemingway, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Same with Michael Moore. When the people's champ gives us the dope on corporate bosses and sweatshop kings, he never presents their greed as some kind of deplorable personal trait.
ref: 2000 August 7, Robert Newman, “Performers of the world unite”, in The Guardian:
text: “Everyone seems less excited about the war here than out there. When I do get the dope on the poster situation, I will let you know.” He and Forsythe were itching to contribute to the war effort by designing recruitment posters.
ref: 2013, Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 198:
synonyms: scoop
glosses: Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1902, “The Barrister's Shakespeare”, in The Green Bag, volume XIV, page 525:
text: You call that steering? We almost got killed! My fault? Yeah, step over here and say that, you stripey dope! That's right, I'm talking to you!
ref: 1990 February 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: — Я превращу в пыль все товары, и все столы, и всё оборудование этой презренной лавки!
— Ты с ума сошёл! — вконец возмутился Волька.— Ведь это государственное добро, старая ты балда!
ref: 1972 [1955, 1938], Lazar Lagin, “Беспокойный вечер”, in Старик Хоттабыч [Starik Xottabyč], page 46; English translation from “A Troubled Evening”, in Faina Solasko, transl., The Old Genie Hottabych, translation of original in Russian, 1960, page 54:
roman: Starik Xottabyč
synonyms: word: alcatote
word: asshat
word: arsehole
word: asshole
word: bayard
word: berk
word: birdbrain
word: blither
word: bobchin
word: bonehead
word: bozo
word: buffoon
word: brickhead
word: Charlie
word: chucklehead
word: chowderhead
word: chump
word: clart
word: clown
word: der-brain
word: dill pickle
word: dim bulb
word: dingleberry
word: dipshit
word: dipstick
word: dirtbrain
word: div
word: divvo
word: divvy
word: dolt
word: donk
word: doodle
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: dote
word: dotterel
word: dullard
word: dumbass
word: dumbbell
word: dumb fuck
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dupe
word: fathead
word: fenderhead
word: fiddle
word: fuckwit
word: fuzznut
word: geck
word: gig
word: gink
word: goober
word: gooseberry
word: gowk
word: gubbins
word: gump
word: ha'p'orth
word: Homer Simpson
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: jamoke
word: jerk
word: jerkoff
word: jolterhead
word: jolthead
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knucklehead
word: lamebrain
word: mameluke (US (Italian-American)
word: slang)
word: maroon
word: meathead
word: mong
word: moron
word: mug
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: numskull
word: numps
word: numpty
word: nupson
word: oaf
word: pillock
word: pinhead
word: plonker
word: prat
word: retard
word: shit for brains
word: shithead
word: shitwit
word: schmo
word: schmuck
word: snapperhead
word: softhead
word: sot
word: stupid
word: sucker
word: thickhead
word: tonto
word: tool
word: tosser
word: tosspot
word: twat
word: twerp
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzock
word: yampy
glosses: A stupid person.
qualifier: Ohio
glosses: Dessert topping.
glosses: A soft drink. Otherwise known as soda or pop.
Derived terms: antidope
benzo dope
dedope
dope addict
dope book
dope deal
dope dick
dope dog
dope fiend
dope glass
dopehead
dope house
dopeless
dope man
dope out
dope-pedlar
dope-ring
dope-runner
dopesauce
dope set
dope-sheet
dope sheet
dope-shop
dope sick
dope sickness
dope slap
dope-slap
dopester
dope stick
dope-stick
dope story
dope time
dope whore
dopey
peg dope
photodope
pipe dope
rope-a-dope
scope dope
smoke dope
smoke one's own dope
straight dope
Trudope