dope, n. & v.
--n.
1 a varnish applied to the cloth surface of aeroplane parts to strengthen them, keep them airtight, etc.
2 a thick liquid used as a lubricant etc.
3 a substance added to petrol etc. to increase its effectiveness.
4 a sl. a narcotic; a stupefying drug. b a drug etc. given to a horse or greyhound, or taken by an athlete, to affect performance.
5 sl. a stupid person.
6 sl. a information about a subject, esp. if not generally known. b misleading information.
--v.
1 tr. administer dope to, drug.
2 tr. Electronics add an impurity to (a semiconductor) to produce a desired electrical characteristic.
3 tr. smear, daub; apply dope to.
4 intr. take addictive drugs.

Idiom

dope out sl. discover.

Derivative

doper n.

Etymology

Du. doop sauce f. doopen to dip

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THESAURUS

dope

Boeotian, KO, Mickey Finn, account, acquaintance, add, addictive drug, alcohol, algebraize, analgesic, anesthetic, anesthetize, announcement, anoint, answer, backing, bedaze, benumb, benzine, besot, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, block, blue book, blunt, bootleg liquor, bottom, brass tacks, briefing, briquette, bulletin, burnable, butane, calculate, candy, carbon, cartridge, cast, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, charcoal, chloroform, chowderhead, chucklehead, cigarettes, cipher, clear up, clod, coal, coke, coldcock, color film, color negative film, combustible, communication, communique, compute, contraband, crack, dangerous drug, data, datum, deaden, debug, decipher, decode, desensitize, details, dimwit, directory, disentangle, dispatch, divide, divine, do, dolt, donkey, dope out, dose, downer, dowse for water, drug, drugs, dry plate, dull, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, embrocate, emulsion, enlightenment, entrance, essential facts, essentials, estimate, ethane, ethanol, etherize, evidence, explain, extract roots, facts, factual information, familiarization, fathom, figure, figure in, figure out, film, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, fortune-tell, frame, freeze, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, gen, general information, get, get right, gowk, guess, guess right, guidebook, hallucinogen, handout, hard drug, hard information, hard stuff, hariolate, have it, heptane, hexane, hit it, hop, hot goods, hypnotize, incidental information, inflammable, inflammable material, info, information, instruction, intelligence, interpret, isooctane, jet fuel, jewels, jobbernowl, junk, kayo, kerosene, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, knockout drop, knowledge, lackwit, lamebrain, lay out, light, lightweight, looby, loon, low-down, lull to sleep, magnetize, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make out, measure, medicate, mention, mesmerize, message, methane, methanol, microfilm, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, multiply, narcotic, narcotics, narcotize, natural gas, negative, news, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddle, noddy, notice, notification, numb, obtund, octane, oil, open the lock, opiate, orthochromatic film, pack, pain-killer, palsy, panchromatic film, paraffin, paralyze, peat, pentane, photographic paper, plate, plumb, poop, predict, prefigure, presage, presentation, printing paper, prognosticate, promotional material, proof, propane, propellant, prophesy, psych, psych out, psychedelic, publication, publicity, put, put to sleep, put under, puzzle out, ravel, ravel out, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reckon, release, report, resolve, riddle, rock to sleep, rocket fuel, roll, salve, scoop, score, sedate, sedative, sidelight, sleeping pill, smuggled goods, solve, soothsay, sort out, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, speculate, statement, stolen goods, story, stuff, stun, stupe, stupefy, stupid, subtract, take account of, tally, tell fortunes, tell the future, the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the goods, the information, the know, the particulars, the picture, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story, thickwit, trance, tranquilizer, transmission, tripack, turf, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, upper, vaticinate, vehicle, white book, white paper, witling, word, work, work out

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dope

Discrimination

N discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism, nice perception, perception of difference, appreciation of difference, estimation, nicety, refinement, taste, critique, judgment, tact, discernment, acuteness, penetration, nuances, dope, past performances, discriminating, dioristic, discriminative, distinctive, nice, il y a fagots et fagots, rem acu tetigisti, la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile, miles apart, a distinction without a difference.

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