dopen.
/dəʊp/, U.S. /doʊp/ 1.
a. Any thick liquid or semi-fluid used as an article of food, or as a lubricant. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > other prepared foods or dishes > [noun]
mawmenny1381
browet Saracen?c1390
corat?c1390
lete lardes?c1390
lete lory?c1390
burseuc1400
lorey14..
Jack of Doverc1405
bukenadea1425
nesebeka1425
mosy?c1425
blaundsore1430
fauntemperec1430
irchinc1430
white sorréc1430
entraila1450
pasteladea1450
prenadec1450
fignadea1475
frianc1500
profiterole?1521
slampamp1593
flap-dragon1604
eel-cake1653
Lombard1657
hedgehog1723
bird's nest1769
dope18..
negro-pota1818
jug jug1877
King Henry's shoestrings1887
foam-omelet1892
crème1901
farofa1922
chilaquiles1938
metagee1957
Kiev1967
pani puri1969
the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] > a semi-fluid substance or mass > specific
chocolate liquor1662
dope18..
cream1903
mousse1968
18.. Sci. Amer. Supp. XXII. 9033 ‘Dope’, a preparation of pitch, tallow, and other ingredients, which, being applied to the bottom of the shoes, enables the wearer to lightly glide over the snow softened by the rays of the sun.
1876 Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 13 Feb. Nothing was known of the mysteries of ‘dope’—a preparation of pitch which, being applied to the bottom of the shoes, enables the wearer to glide over snow softened by the warmth of the sun.
1947 R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 218 They treated the running surface of the skis with ‘dope’, corresponding to our modern downhill wax.
1954 E. Eager Half Magic v. 97 Today he..had a double hot fudge dope.
b. A preparation, mixture, or drug which is not specifically named (see quots.); = stuff n.1 6 slang (originally U.S.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [noun] > mixed
dope1872
premix1932
premixture1934
formulation1958
1872 Chicago Tribune 24 Dec. 4/4 He..bids us beware of the sugar, for it is full of flour and sand;..of the milk, for it is compounded of dope.
1900 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey 186 Give me some more o' that dope there—quick—I—I—am—dyin'.
1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 188 Give me some perfumed Dope that will restore a Peaches and Cream Complexion.
1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures 53 (caption) Two small barrels..made all the film base, or ‘dope’, as it is called, in 1891.
1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 4 July in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 222 The hay fever is better now, more because the season is passing than by reason of the doctor's ‘dopes’, I think.
1915 E. Poole Harbor 60 Joe's father vaccinated about a score of children that week. The ‘dope’ he used was mailed to him by a drug firm.
1924 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Dope…5. Photogr. A varnish used to facilitate retouching, block out portions of a negative, etc.
1928 Sunday Disp. 8 July 9/5 ‘Dope finish’ [is a slang expression] for face paint and powder.
c. A varnish applied to the cloth surface of aeroplane parts, in order to increase strength and to keep them taut and air-tight. Also, a liquid preparation applied to air-ship coverings, to increase gas-tightness.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > varnish applied to fabric
dope1912
1912 Aeroplane 19 Dec. 607 Cellon... The Fabric Dope used by the leading British and Continental Aeroplane and Hydro-aeroplane Builders.
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 142 Strut, Dope, a strut within a surface, so placed as to prevent the tension of the doped fabric from distorting the framework.
1917 Times 1 June 9/5 The King and Queen..went on through..the seaplane department, and the ‘dope’ room.
1918 A. Barr in A. J. Swinton Aeroplane Handbk. (1920) 144 The Germans at the beginning of the war used acetate dope and covered it with transparent oil varnish.
1930 Flight 17 Jan. 134/2 Dope is a solution of cellulose esters in various solvents and diluents.
1967 B. Robertson Aircraft Markings 14 The French had used a sky blue dope early in the war at the time when French uniforms were of horizon blue.
d. A substance added to petrol or other fuel, etc., to increase its efficiency; an additive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > additives
oxidizer1850
dope1930
1930 Engineering 11 July 31/1 A lubricant such as oleine..or oleic acid, when added to a fuel containing metallic dope, had the effect of partially inhibiting the detonation-delaying action of the dope.
1937 Times 13 Apr. p. xix/4 Dopes both for petrol and for lubricating oils are now well known.
e. More widely: any kind of material applied to a surface or used in an operation.
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1923 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures 57 This is the substance forming the base or thin strip of film serving as the support for the sensitised emulsion, and which is called ‘dope’.
2. An absorbent material used to hold a lubricant; the absorbent element in a high explosive.
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1880 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1879–80 8 417 Hercules powder..contains a very large proportion of nitrate of soda..the remainder of the dope being incombustible carbonate of magnesia.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 131 at Explosives Giant-powder, a mixture of nitroglycerin with a dry pulverized mineral or vegetable absorbent or dope.
3. figurative.1937 Ess. & Stud. 22 146 Poetry was comparatively popular because it was dope, though a mild and fairly harmless dope like cigarette-smoking.
a. colloquial (originally dialect). A stupid person, a simpleton, a fool. Also (U.S. slang), a person under the influence of, or addicted to, some drug (see sense 3b).
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton
innocentc1386
greenhead1576
gonyc1580
ninnyhammer1592
chicken1600
loach1605
simplician1605
hichcock1607
smelt1607
foppasty1611
dovea1616
goslinga1616
funge1621
simplicity1633
gewgaw1634
squab1640
simpletonian1652
ninny-whoop1653
softhead1654
foppotee1663
greenhorn1672
sumph1682
sawney1699
sillyton1708
gaby?1746
gobbin?1746
green goose1768
nin-a-kin1787
Jacob1811
green1824
sillikin1832
greeny1834
softhorn1836
sucker1838
softie1850
dope1851
soft1854
verigreen1854
peanut1864
daftie1872
josser1886
naïf1891
yapc1894
barm-stick1924
knobhead1931
sook1933
nig-nog1953
sawn1953
pronk1959
stiffy1965
1851 Gloss. Provinc. Words Cumberland 8 Dope, a simpleton.
1866 E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton II. i. 17 A ‘downo-canno dope’—which meant a spiritless simpleton.
1866 E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton III. ii. 39 She was..‘a dozened lile dope’.
1909 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 1 May 5/1 He's an old dope, which he don't look like, or he's on.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 81 Dope,..a fool.
1925 N. Venner Imperfect Impostor ii. 17 I am just the humble dope; the clay pigeon; the simple-minded confederate.
1928 E. Wallace Flying Squad xiv. 121 How many times have I told you not to frighten that girl, you poor dope?
1938 R. E. Sherwood Idiot's Delight i. 17 That wasn't an officer, that was a porter, you dope!
1948 Chicago Daily News 11 June 16/4 Cold tea sold to night life dopes for brandy at 75 cents a throw.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top 48 ‘Who's Alice?’ I asked. ‘You've met her, you dope.’
1959 P. Capon Amongst those Missing 108 Silly dope, he can't go on dodging the Court for ever.
b. ‘Opium, especially the thick treacle-like preparation used in opium-smoking’ (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); hence applied to stupefying drugs and narcotics in general, or to alcoholic drink. slang (originally U.S.). (See also sense Compounds 1.)
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s)
opiate?a1425
dope1886
hop1887
Peter1899
quill1916
junk1921
narcotic1926
stuff1929
mojo1935
sugar1935
gear1954
narco1954
sauce1975
opie1992
Scooby Snack1996
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > opium
poppyOE
opiec1385
opiuma1398
afion1542
meconium1601
mud1852
yen she1882
smoke1884
dope1886
hop1887
twang1898
weed1918
gow1922
yen1926
tar1935
gee1936
1886 San Francisco Chron. 1 Feb. The operation of preparing the opium, or ‘dope’, as it is more generally called among white habitues, for the pipe, is quite interesting.
1891 T. W. Knox in H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1892) xxviii. 570 The opium used for smoking—called by the smokers ‘dope’—is an aqueous extract of the ordinary commercial gum.
1894 J. L. Ford Lit. Shop ix. 130 Opium-joints—those mysterious dens in which..the fumes of the burning ‘dope’ cloy the senses.
1896 G. Ade Artie viii. 75 I would advise you to stop smokin that double X brand of dope.
1896 Chautauquan Oct. 60/1 In San Francisco, large confiscations of ‘dope’ are made nearly every week.
1920 Outward Bound Oct. 38/1 The death of a fascinating actress from an overdose of ‘dope’.
1922 Public Opinion 5 May 420/3 The cabarets in Constantinople are a meeting place for all the world's dope purveyors.
c. A medical preparation administered to a race-horse for the purpose of affecting its performance.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > equipment > [noun] > drug given to horse
dope1900
sting1949
1900 Westm. Gaz. 30 Oct. 7/3 It is administered in cap-sules, given in a gelatine of varying thickness according to the required time when the ‘dope’ is desired to take effect.
1913 Badminton Mag. Jan. 88 A dope proper may be administered [to a horse] as a powder laid on the tongue, as a drink—usually given in old ale—or by the hypodermic syringe.
d. [Perhaps arising from the ambiguity of the abbreviation coke = (a) cocaine, (b) Coca-Cola.] Coca-Cola or some other carbonated drink. U.S. regional slang.
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1915 Printers' Ink 23 Sept. 46/2 The propensity of a large portion of those who regularly drink Coca-Cola to call for their favorite drink as ‘dope’ or ‘coke’ or ‘koke’.
1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter ii. i. 98 If she had any money she bought a dope or a Milky Way at Mister Brannon's.
1947 F. G. Patton in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1952) 224 Want a dope?.. I tried to call them cokes once.
4.
a. Information, esp. on a particular subject or of a kind not widely disseminated or easily obtained; (a statement of) facts or essential details; also, information, a statement, etc., designed to gloss over or disguise facts; flattering or misleading talk. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > communication > information > [noun]
kithc900
avaymentc1315
learningc1386
information1390
knowledgea1398
witteringa1400
witting1417
advicec1425
hearinga1450
understanding1473
intelligence?a1475
intellectionc1475
wit1487
instructiona1535
myance1552
fact1566
aviso1589
facts and figures1727
tell1823
message1828
renseignement1841
khubber1878
dope1901
lowdown1905
info1907
poop1911
oil1915
score1938
gen1940
intel1961
scam1964
1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 77 I've known Tommy for a long time, so he feels free to read his dope to me.
1904 W. H. Smith Promoters iii. 72 Unless you cover your dope with a sort of angel-of-light coating that would fool Gabriel himself, you'll never get there.
1905 R. E. Beach Pardners 22 He handed me the dope: ‘In re Olive Troop Morrow vs. Justus Morroe’.
1910 S. E. White Rules of Game (1913) ii. iii. 126 Gosh! I get sick of handing out dope to these yaps.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 8 The most popular slang term in use today in the unregenerate world — ‘dope’ .. signifying ‘news’, ‘intelligence’, or ‘meaning’.
1915 F. Froest & G. Dilnot Crime Club xii. 290 Don't pull any of that dope on me.
1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step 103 I was to send the dope to Cassell and he would transmit it to the Battery Commander as officially coming through the observation post.
1919 Detective Story Mag. XXVIII. i. 13 I suggested it to a detective, but he laughed at me and said the article was nothing but ‘dope’.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xx. 224 I could help you there. I've got the thing down fine. I've got the infallible dope!
1920 Public Opinion 9 July 43/3 Your patent dialectic dope By gulps we take with zest.
1921 19th Cent. & After May 748 He does not quite believe that the Bolshevik leaders themselves believe in their doctrines. He strongly suspects that on their part it is mainly ‘dope’.
1922 H. L. Foster Adventures Trop. Tramp x. 140 Run up to Bolivia and get the dope on this affair.
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. ii. 34 He had all the dope about the Army Contracts trial.
1945 A. Christie Sparkling Cyanide iii. x. 136 I shouldn't dream of..denying it. You've obviously cabled to America and got all the dope.
b. gen. Something designed to deceive or bamboozle; a fraudulent design or action; a piece of deception or humbug; also, a person employed in a fraudulent transaction.
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1915 F. Froëst & G. Dilnot Crime Club vi I want you to find out who's marketing the dope.
1915 F. Froëst & G. Dilnot Crime Club xii ‘I reckon it [sc. a pistol] is liable to go off,’ agreed the other grimly. ‘Especially if you try to put any of the funny dope over on me.’
1915 F. Froëst & G. Dilnot Crime Club xii ‘Don't pull any of that dope on me,’ said Coyne sharply.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (In sense 3b.)
dope-addict n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict
head1856
narcotist1860
drugger1870
drug fiend1873
druggard1882
narcomaniac1888
dope-fiend1896
addict1899
dopehead1901
hypo1904
drug addict1905
drug abuser1915
junker1922
junkie1923
hype1924
needle artist1925
needleman1925
schmecker1931
dope-addict1933
ad1938
dopester1938
narco1958
pillhead1962
druggie1966
freak1967
drugster1970
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xi. 188 A dope-addict's dream.
dope-dream n.
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1908 U. Sinclair Metropolis 137 What will people think..seeing you sitting there like a man in a dope dream?
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 821 I had expected to find a new Russia stirring in its sleep..and I found it sinking deeper into the dope-dream of Sovietic self-sufficiency.
dope-merchant n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs
drug dealer1800
drug peddler1889
swing man1903
drug pusher1904
drug trafficker1912
dope-merchant1921
junker1922
dope-pedlar1923
junkie1923
pedlar1929
pusher1929
dope-seller1930
dope-runner1933
connection1934
dope-smuggler1937
tea man1938
man1942
dealer1951
score1951
passer1956
candy man1965
narcotraficante1980
clocker1989
1921 Outward Bound Apr. 44/2 The policy of the ‘dope merchant’..would issue in sleep, death and fossilisation.
dope-seller n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs
drug dealer1800
drug peddler1889
swing man1903
drug pusher1904
drug trafficker1912
dope-merchant1921
junker1922
dope-pedlar1923
junkie1923
pedlar1929
pusher1929
dope-seller1930
dope-runner1933
connection1934
dope-smuggler1937
tea man1938
man1942
dealer1951
score1951
passer1956
candy man1965
narcotraficante1980
clocker1989
1930 New Statesman 27 Dec. 356/2 He was using the money to finance a gang of dope-sellers.
dope-smuggler n.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > smuggler > of certain goods
owler1690
runner1719
flasker1816
opium smuggler1841
rum runner1917
dope-smuggler1937
buttlegger1945
stuffer1983
swallower1983
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs
drug dealer1800
drug peddler1889
swing man1903
drug pusher1904
drug trafficker1912
dope-merchant1921
junker1922
dope-pedlar1923
junkie1923
pedlar1929
pusher1929
dope-seller1930
dope-runner1933
connection1934
dope-smuggler1937
tea man1938
man1942
dealer1951
score1951
passer1956
candy man1965
narcotraficante1980
clocker1989
1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders ii. 43 Wonder if your friends..know you're so companionable with a dope smuggler, eh?
dope-smuggling n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > narcotics
drug peddling1861
drug traffic1868
dope-trafficking1933
connection1934
dope-running1941
dope-smuggling1941
dope-peddling1959
drug-pushing1959
pushing1962
push1973
1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun xi. 215 The whole case hinges on dope smuggling.
1969 M. G. Eberhart Message from Hong Kong xii. 104 If it's dope smuggling it's too big for me.
dope-traffic n.
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1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero iii. 95 He wondered which of the queer fellows..hanging about street corners were in the dope traffic.
dope-trafficking n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > narcotics
drug peddling1861
drug traffic1868
dope-trafficking1933
connection1934
dope-running1941
dope-smuggling1941
dope-peddling1959
drug-pushing1959
pushing1962
push1973
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xv. 249 The crookedness of dope-trafficking.
1954 J. Symons Narrowing Circle xii. 47 Dimmock had begun as an agent of the Barcini brothers, who got a seven-year stretch for dope trafficking.
C2.
dope-book n. U.S. slang a book of information on any subject; also figurative.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Dope-book, a miscellaneous collection of racing information.
1918 Amer. Mag. Aug. 38/2 The one that invents the dope book on the female race, and the bird that holds a patent on the complete understanding of human nature.
dope-fiend n. slang (originally U.S.) a drug-addict.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict
head1856
narcotist1860
drugger1870
drug fiend1873
druggard1882
narcomaniac1888
dope-fiend1896
addict1899
dopehead1901
hypo1904
drug addict1905
drug abuser1915
junker1922
junkie1923
hype1924
needle artist1925
needleman1925
schmecker1931
dope-addict1933
ad1938
dopester1938
narco1958
pillhead1962
druggie1966
freak1967
drugster1970
1896 Sun (N.Y.) Dec. ‘A dope fiend’... A victim of the opium habit.
1914 R. H. Davis With Allies (1915) 158 With the desperation of a dope fiend clutching his last pill of cocaine.
1963 Punch 20 Mar. 425/2 Mr. Trocchi's dopefiends.
dope-peddling n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > narcotics
drug peddling1861
drug traffic1868
dope-trafficking1933
connection1934
dope-running1941
dope-smuggling1941
dope-peddling1959
drug-pushing1959
pushing1962
push1973
1959 P. Townend Died o' Wednesday x. 177 Malosti's current livelihood, the dope-peddling organisation.
1959 F. Usher Death in Error ix. 143 Nothing worse than a little mild dope peddling goes on.
dope-pedlar n. (also dope-peddler) = dope-runner n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs
drug dealer1800
drug peddler1889
swing man1903
drug pusher1904
drug trafficker1912
dope-merchant1921
junker1922
dope-pedlar1923
junkie1923
pedlar1929
pusher1929
dope-seller1930
dope-runner1933
connection1934
dope-smuggler1937
tea man1938
man1942
dealer1951
score1951
passer1956
candy man1965
narcotraficante1980
clocker1989
1923 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Crim. Law & Criminol. Aug. 292 No other group comes closer to the bootlegger or the dope peddler.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xii. 217 You must be the dead spit of some habitual dope-peddler.
1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel 388 He's nothing but a sleek dope peddler.
1959 News Chron. 19 Aug. 6/3 The bookies, the dope pedlars and bootleggers.
dope-ring n. a group of people engaged in obtaining, selling, and using narcotics.
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1929 D. Hammett Dain Curse (1930) iii. 24 What do you think he is?.. Head of a dope ring?
1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 19/4 Gangsters, dope rings, tough guys.
1957 P. Moore Sci. & Fiction 100 Veterans whose sole mission in life was to uncover dope-rings led by unscrupulous Martians.
dope-runner n. a seller of illicit drugs.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs
drug dealer1800
drug peddler1889
swing man1903
drug pusher1904
drug trafficker1912
dope-merchant1921
junker1922
dope-pedlar1923
junkie1923
pedlar1929
pusher1929
dope-seller1930
dope-runner1933
connection1934
dope-smuggler1937
tea man1938
man1942
dealer1951
score1951
passer1956
candy man1965
narcotraficante1980
clocker1989
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xiv. 238 He said you were a dope-runner.
dope-running n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > narcotics
drug peddling1861
drug traffic1868
dope-trafficking1933
connection1934
dope-running1941
dope-smuggling1941
dope-peddling1959
drug-pushing1959
pushing1962
push1973
1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun xi. 206 The result of her getting mixed up..with the dope-running stunt.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxxi. 303 You used to know all about his dope-running.
dope-sheet n. U.S. slang a sheet of paper bearing information or instructions, esp. written or printed information about race-horses.
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1903 G. Ade People you Know 111 When he arrived at the Track he gave up for a Badge and a Dope-Sheet and a couple of Perfectos.
1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 189 His work book..must next be elaborated on a different set of printed sheets, generally known as camera-exposure charts or, in the U.S.A., as dope sheets.
dope-shop n. a place where dope (sense 1c) is applied to aeroplanes, etc.
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1933 Aeroplane 26 Apr. 732/1 When the machine reaches the end of the line it is ready to go straight to the dope shop.
dope-stick n. slang (see quot. 1918: examples are New Zealand).
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1918 N.Z. at Front 1918 132 Cigarettes! smokes, fags, weeds, dope-sticks—they are known by many strange names.
1930 W. J. Smyth Wooden Rails xi. 168 Pass me those dope-sticks, there's a dear.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
dopeadj.
/dəʊp/, U.S. /doʊp/ Originally in African-American usage.
Chiefly among rap musicians and enthusiasts: excellent, great, impressive.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > attractive or impressive quality > [adjective]
high-toned1845
toffish1873
tony1877
stylish1892
fly1980
dope1981
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
faireOE
bremea1000
goodlyOE
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noblec1300
pricec1300
specialc1325
gentlec1330
fine?c1335
singulara1340
thrivena1350
thriven and throa1350
gaya1375
properc1380
before-passinga1382
daintiful1393
principala1398
gradelya1400
burlyc1400
daintyc1400
thrivingc1400
voundec1400
virtuousc1425
hathelc1440
curiousc1475
singlerc1500
beautiful1502
rare?a1534
gallant1539
eximious1547
jolly1548
egregious?c1550
jellyc1560
goodlike1562
brawc1565
of worth1576
brave?1577
surprising1580
finger-licking1584
admirablea1586
excellinga1586
ambrosial1598
sublimated1603
excellent1604
valiant1604
fabulous1609
pure1609
starryc1610
topgallant1613
lovely1614
soaringa1616
twanging1616
preclarent1623
primea1637
prestantious1638
splendid1644
sterling1647
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1981 J. Spicer Money (song) in L. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 301 Yo, man, them boys is dope... This record is dope.
1990 Interview Mar. 148/4 So who's perfect already? Fly maybe, dope maybe, def maybe, and down by law, but perfect—oy gevalt!
1993 B. Cross It's not about Salary 223 Check this out—dope cover, huh? James Brown's first record, I have like two hundred different singles of his.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 35 Premier is dope. Him and RZA are the best producers right now.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dopev.
Originally U.S.
1.
a. transitive. To administer dope to (a person, a horse); to stupefy with a drug; to drug.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)]
narcotize1526
potion1611
druga1730
hocus1831
dope1889
slug1925
snow1927
bomb1950
hit1953
to hop up1968
1889 [see doping n. and adj. at Derivatives].
figurative.1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock iii. 41 I was so doped with my siren song that I steered straight for the rocks.1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism I. 218 Boycotting the Churches as mere contrivances for doping the workers into submission to Capitalism.1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 309/2 (American), to drug with tobacco. Also Doping = the practice.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 8/2 They urge a liberal investment on the American horse, and confidentially impart the information that the animal is ‘doped’.
1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders xxxv. 429 That guy that doped me, he wa'n't satisfied with my good thirty-dollar wad.
1915 C. S. Jones Hohenzollern 169 The King (who, if we are to believe his fair companion, used to be liberally doped) would awake from a trance at a séance to find his inamorata in his arms.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill ii. 62 To say nothing of doping him with asperin and quinine and camphor and menthol and hot tea and soothing words.
1919 G. Page Veldt Trail xix. 200 ‘They must have kept him [sc. a horse] pretty short of food.’..‘Or doped him,’ suggested Birkdale.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. May 632/2 He ladled into his nose sufficient snuff to have doped an ordinary man.
1955 Times 8 June 4/5 He had heard of greyhounds being doped, but not to make them run faster.
b. intransitive. To take or be addicted to drugs.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (intransitive)]
sleigh-ride1845
drug1893
dope1909
to hit the gong, gow, stuff1933
use1951
to get down1952
to turn on1954
goof1962
joy-pop1962
to drop acid1966
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1926 N. Lucas London & its Criminals xviii. 253 Doping is so prevalent in the East that the traffic in drugs appeals naturally to the Eastern crook.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise v. 85 Did he dope?
2.
a. To treat with an adulterant, etc.; to ‘doctor’.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate
adulterc1384
feigna1398
sophisticatec1400
infect?1440
counterfeit1495
adulterate?1526
dash1548
falsify1562
elay1573
abuse1574
base1581
corrupt1581
debase1591
adulterize1593
compass1594
sophisticate1604
allay1634
huckster1642
hucksterize1646
cauponize1652
alloy1661
balderdash1674
impurify1693
doctor1726
vitiate1728
sand1851
dope1898
1898 Let. in Congress. Rec. App. 223/1 They will run their flutter mills and mixers, and dope the flour to suit themselves.
1906 in Asher & Heal Send no Money (1942) 95 You would like to know just where you are at before you ‘dope’ that kind of stock with a strange mixture.
1913 Sunday Times (Trenton, New Jersey) 2 Mar. 1 Alternative offered to the water drinkers of Trenton: Typhoid if the water isn't ‘doped’ with hypochlorite of lime; an itch if it is.
b. To add an impurity to (a semiconductor) to produce a desired electrical characteristic.
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1955 F. E. Terman et al. Electronic & Radio Engin. (ed. 4) xxi. 753 The degree of doping is commonly expressed in terms of the conductivity (or resistivity) of the resulting material.
1956 L. P. Hunter Handbk. Semiconductor Electronics vii. 7 The melt is doped with a donor (arsenic) so as to produce a low-resistivity N-type emitter.
1956 L. P. Hunter Handbk. Semiconductor Electronics vi. 26 A uniformly doped crystal will be grown.
1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors iii. 43 The distance that the barrier extends into the semiconductor is also smaller in the case of a heavily doped semiconductor.
1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 22/3 By suitable masking and ‘doping’ techniques, which selectively altered the electrical behavior of small regions, several score transistors could be created on each wafer.
3. To smear, daub; spec. to apply ‘dope’ to (the outer fabric of an aeroplane or the like).
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > construct and service aircraft or spacecraft [verb (transitive)] > apply varnish to
dope1916
1868 Putnam's Mag. II. 363 With their snow-shoes thoroughly ‘doped’, the crowd resort to some suitable place for the contest, which begins with a grand dash.
1902 Dial. Notes 2 233 Dope, v. tr. 1. To smear, or lubricate. 2. To put salve on a wound.
1916 Sphere 25 Mar. 321/1 The wings are finished,..and the whole ‘doped’, and ready.
1917 Times 1 June 9/5 Some hundreds of girls were engaged in‘doping’ the fabric which covers the planes, rudders and ailerons.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 59/1 [Airship.] Cotton..appears to have some advantages owing to its great uniformity of contraction when doped.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station 10 The envelope was ‘doped’ with aluminium paint on its top side and with yellow pigment on the lower portions.
1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn 12 There was a salad of lettuce whittled into shoestrings..and doped with vinegar and bacon grease.
1941 Illustr. London News 199 198 (caption) A rigger dopes fresh patches of fabric over the muzzles of the guns to assist in streamlining and speed until the aircraft opens fire.
4. to dope out.
a. To make out; to find out, discover; to get the truth about.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > thoroughly, with effort
through-goOE
through-seekOE
penetrate?1563
bore1622
bottom1713
to get inside ——1830
underthink1886
to dope out1906
1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 161 All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her.
1913 E. D. Biggers Seven Keys to Baldpate ii. 31 Ther's something I haven't quite doped out. That is— who's trespassing, me or you?
1914 R. H. Davis With Allies (1915) 10 We would study the morning papers and..from them try to dope out the winners.
1918 C. Wells Vicky Van xv. 180 I dope out all this has to be so.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress ii. 30 Nature had it all doped out for me to be the Belle of Hicks Corners.
1922 Short Stories Feb. 102/2 ‘How'd you dope it out, Kid?’ asked one. ‘Tell us how you could do such good detective work.’
1926 J. Black You can't Win xxiii. 367 I had all the criminal lawyers in San Francisco doped out like race horses by this time.
1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme v. 94 Uncle James dopes it out that it's been Questing's idea to get this place on his own.
b. To work out; to get hold of.
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1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 191 He's doped out a fifty-dollar bill, anyway.
1919 Detective Story Mag. XXVIII. i. 6 He might have doped out a corking yarn about how the Phantom..made everybody believe that the explosion killed him.
1922 Short Stories Feb. 175/2 I didn't have time to dope out any plot till I got back to Denver.
Derivatives
doped adj.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective]
intoxicated1576
drunk1585
besotted1831
drugged1871
dopey1896
doped1903
piped1906
lit1912
loaded1923
high1932
polluted1938
stone1945
straight1946
impaired1951
on the nod1951
buzzed1952
stoned1953
hung1958
strung out1959
zonked1959
shot1964
out of (also off) one's bird1966
ripped1966
wiped1966
amped1967
tanked1968
wrecked1968
whacked out1969
wired1970
jagged1973
funked up1976
annihilated1980
junked out1982
obliterated1984
caned1992
wankered1992
twatted1993
1903 Sun (N.Y.) 23 Nov. 12 A ‘doped’ cigar was given to him in a pool and billiard room, and it had pretty near the same effect on him as knockout drops.
1913 Daily Mail 11 Mar. 7/5 ‘Doped’ Athletes... It is well known..that the Russian skaters take such stimulants [as strychnine].
1913 Badminton Mag. Jan. 89 A doped animal will run till it is done, mad drunk with the drug.
1913 Aeroplane 13 Mar. 303/1 The shiny surface of well ‘doped’ wings.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 535/2 She rejoined the remainder of the passengers.., having in her hands a doped handkerchief.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 124/1 He might publish in his doped and venal press the felicitations that were showered upon him.
1935 Discovery July 208/2 The colour of the doped solution is intermediate between those of the two permanent solutions.
19562 [see sense 2b]. ˈdoping n. and adj.
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1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. (at cited word) Doping is the stupifying men with tobacco prepared in a peculiar way... Nine out of ten saloons in the slums employ doping as a means to increase their illicit revenue. —American Newspaper.
1900 Daily News 14 Nov. 8/4 ‘Doping’ meant the administration to a horse of certain medical preparations, with the object of either stimulating or retarding the animal's progress in a race.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 15 Sept. 5/2 The Jockey Club propose to pass a rule forbidding doping in any shape or form.
1914 Racing Cal. 23 July I was unable to obtain evidence of the presence of a doping agent.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiv To tell me we ought to cook Harold's food ourselves to prevent doping.
1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 17 July 515/1 So the old reprobate's dopings had told at long last.
1926 [see sense 1b]. 1935 Discovery July 208/2 The ‘doping’ of the sample water with ‘O.T.’ is carried out automatically and with perfect precision.
1955 Times 7 June 3/3 A Harley Street specialist was one of three men who were alleged at the Central Criminal Court yesterday to have been concerned in a conspiracy concerning the doping of greyhounds.
1970 [see sense 2b]. ˈdoper n. one who dopes; one who administers or takes drugs.
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1913 Badminton Mag. Jan. 89 A regular doper always tries his horses at home.
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