dope

Meaning

Noun

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) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (slang, uncountable) Any of various recreational substances
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) Any of various recreational substances:
6. (countable, slang, uncountable) Any of various recreational substances:
7. (slang, uncountable) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
8. (uncountable) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
9. (countable, slang) A stupid person.
10. (US, countable, uncountable) Dessert topping.
11. (Appalachia, countable, uncountable) A soft drink. Otherwise known as soda or pop.

Verb

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

Adj

Amazing; cool.

Synonyms

drug

💊

narcotic

idiot

opiate

fool

dolt

booby

pot

grass

Mary Jane

boob

weed

gage

blunderer

smoke

drugs

💊

the skinny

sens

bungler

spread

dough

skunk

🦨

sess

green goddess

dullard

dumbbell

dummy

dunderhead

poop

💩

pinhead

simpleton

dope up

half-wit

noodle

low-down

cola

marijuana

dimwit

lacquer

locoweed

muddler

imbecile

paste

inside information

coatings

coating material

coat

🧥

lacker

duffer

juice

Translations

dotieren

dopar

dopen

droga

💊

doper

drogue

💊

Rauschgift

💊

narcótico

droga

ναρκωτικό

narcotico

Droge

💊

dope

Aufputschmittel

Pronounced as (IPA)

[dəʊp]

Etymology

Cognate with English: dip

Cognate with German: taufen

In summary

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. Unrelated to dopamine.

Sentences

The next thing the dope wants is a room .