dope
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
dope
- (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
- (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.
- (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.''
- 1953, Tom Lehrer, Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, 1981, p. 18
- (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
- What's the latest dope on the stock market?
- (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
- (countable, slang) A stupid person.
- (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.
- See also Thesaurus:fool
- French: éponge
- Russian: сорбе́нт
dope (dopes, present participle doping; past doped, past participle doped)
- (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
- (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
- (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
- (slang) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
- (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
- Spanish: dopar (intransitive)
dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)
- (slang) Amazing.
- That party was dope!
- Russian: клёвый
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