dope

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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, Too Many 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

Verb

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.

Adjective

dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)

1. (slang) Amazing.

   That party was dope!

Anagrams

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doːpə]

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Verb

dope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen

Etymology

From English dope

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔp/

Noun

dope f (plural dopes)

1. (informal) illicit drug, narcotic

Verb

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. first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
5. second-person singular imperative of doper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoː.pə]

Verb

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.

Etymology

From dop +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.pe/

Adverb

dope

1. back, behind, aback

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdope/, [ˈd̪ope]

Verb

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.