dope

From Dutch doop, from Dutch dopen, from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną. Related to English dip.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [dəʊp]
• (US) IPA^(key): [doʊp]

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• Rhymes: -əʊp

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

1. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
2. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
3. (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
   • 1953, Tom Lehrer, Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, 1981, p. 18

     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.

5. (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.

   What's the latest dope on the stock market?

6. (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
7. (countable, slang) A stupid person.
8. (US, Ohio) dessert topping

• See also Thesaurus:fool

• dope fiend
• dope house
• dope man
• dope sheet
• dope slap/dope-slap

dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)

1. (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
2. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
3. (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
4. (slang) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
5. (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

• dope up

dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)

1. (slang) Amazing.

   That party was dope!

• deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, poed

• IPA^(key): [doːpə]

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dope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen

From English dope

• IPA^(key): /dɔp/

dope f (plural dopes)

1. (informal) illicit drug, narcotic

dope

1. first-person singular present indicative of doper
2. third-person singular present indicative of doper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
5. second-person singular imperative of doper

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoː.pə]

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dope

1. First-person singular present of dopen.
2. Imperative singular of dopen.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of dopen.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of dopen.

From dop +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.pe/

dope

1. back, behind, aback

• IPA^(key): /ˈdope/, [ˈd̪ope]

dope

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dopar.