dope
Plural: dopes
Noun
- street names for marijuana
- an ignorant or foolish person
- carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
- slang terms for inside information
- "is that the straight dope?"
- Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
- Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
- Any of various recreational substances
- Any of various recreational substances:
- An opiate, now particularly heroin.
- Any of various recreational substances:
- Marijuana.
- Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
- Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
- A stupid person.
- Dessert topping.
- A soft drink. Otherwise known as soda or pop.
Verb
Verb Forms: doped, doping, dopes
- To administer a drug, especially a narcotic, to someone or something.
- take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
- add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties
- "The resistors have been doped"
- give a narcotic to
- "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race"
- To affect with drugs.
- To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
- To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
- To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.
- To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
Adj
- Amazing; cool.
Examples
- He felt so outplayed, he suspected his opponent might have tried to dope his tiles.
- That party was dope!
- What's the latest dope on the stock market?
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
boob, booby, cola, dope up, dumbbell, dummy, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, low-down, Mary Jane, pinhead, poop, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, the skinny, weed, Charlie, Homer Simpson, administer, alcatote, amazing, arsehole, asshat, asshole, astounding, awesome, awesomesauce, based, bayard, berk, bewildering, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, buffoon, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clart, clown, der-brain, dill pickle, dim bulb, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumb fuck, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, enchanting, excellent, extraordinary, fathead, fenderhead, fiddle, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, goshwow, gowk, grand, grandiose, great, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, hellagood, ignoramus, imbecile, impressive, inspiring, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, lamebrain, magnificent, majestic, major, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, marvellous, meathead, mong, moron, mug, muggins, mushhead, mystifying, mythic, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, outstanding, phenomenal, pillock, plonker, powerful, prat, rad, retard, schmo, schmuck, scoop, selcouth, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, slang), snapperhead, softhead, sot, stupefying, stupendous, stupid, sucker, surpassing, terrific, thickhead, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twit, unbelievable, unreal, wally, wantwit, wazzock, wonderful, wondrous, yampy
Scrabble Score: 7
dope: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddope: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dope: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary