dope
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: dopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dopest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any of various recreational substances
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: 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?
gloss: Any of various recreational substances:
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
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
Riccio nodded toward a boy across the floor and said, “See that kid? He’s on dope.” The boy was standing against a wall, staring vacantly at the dancers, his face fixed in a gentle, faraway smile. Every few seconds, he would wipe his nose with the back of his hand.
“Man, that Jo-Jo!” Benny said. “He’s stoned all the time.”
“What’s he on—horse?” Riccio asked, meaning heroin.
“Who knows with that creep?” Benny said. I asked Benny if any special kind of boy went in for dope.
“The creeps,” he said. “You know, the goofballs.” He searched for a word. “The weak kids. Like Jo-Jo. There ain’t nothing the guys can’t do to him. Last week, we took his pants off and made him run right in the middle of the street without them.”
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.
gloss: Any of various recreational substances:
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: (Senator): Well good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have!
(Farmer): 'Taint corn. It's dope.
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.
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.
At a suburban station, there were kids hanging around smoking dope, as ticketless entry through the exit doors is easy for them.
gloss: Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: What's the latest dope on the stock market?
I got thru the lines and talked with the Captain and got all the Dope.^([sic])
'Boss, one of them's just come in on Fifth. The Limey with the scar. Got a friend with him, but he don't seem to fit the dope on the other two.'
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.
“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.
gloss: Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
slang
examples: 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.
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!
— 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!
gloss: Dessert topping.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft drink.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
countable
uncountable
gloss: To affect with drugs.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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."
Now, suppose another veterinarian should come along with another medicine, named “Goine;” and that a quart of it would make a horse go twice as fast, and you should dope the horse with both medicines […]
gloss: To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
transitive
gloss: Amazing; cool.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That party was dope!
The dope conceptual beauty of the Jungle Brothers is the upful spin they put on black consciousness music, showing that being pro-black can be as much about hot fun in the summertime as gearing up for the next time.
That was dope, E. That shit was dope, man!
Black women are dope: dope as an adjective, not as a noun or verb; dope in Black urban parlance.
Derived words: 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
dopability
dopable
dope off
dope up
underdope
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смазка
roman: smazka
lang: Czech
word: stěrka
lang: Czech
word: penetrace
lang: Dutch
word: grondlaag
lang: Dutch
word: was
lang: Dutch
word: beits
lang: Finnish
word: voiteluaine
lang: French
word: patine
lang: French
word: sous-couche
lang: French
word: cirage
lang: French
word: cire
lang: French
word: vernis
lang: French
word: glaçage
lang: German
word: Schmiere
lang: Malay
word: dop
lang: Russian
word: сма́зка
roman: smázka
lang: Bulgarian
word: наркотик
roman: narkotik
lang: Bulgarian
word: допинг
roman: doping
lang: Dutch
word: drugs
lang: Finnish
word: kama
lang: French
word: dope
lang: French
word: drogue
lang: German
word: Stoff
lang: Macedonian
word: дро́га
roman: dróga
lang: Macedonian
word: на́ркотик
roman: nárkotik
lang: Polish
word: biała śmierć
lang: Romanian
word: narcotică
lang: Romanian
word: drog
lang: Romanian
word: dope
lang: Russian
word: нарко́тик
roman: narkótik
lang: Russian
word: тра́вка
roman: trávka
lang: Russian
word: наркота́
roman: narkotá
lang: Russian
word: дурь
roman: durʹ
lang: Russian
word: дурма́н
roman: durmán
lang: Russian
word: до́пинг
roman: dóping
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gȕdra /гу̏дра