dope
noun/dəʊp/
/dəʊp/
- [uncountable] (informal) a drug that is used illegally for pleasure In British English dope usually means cannabis. In North American English it can also refer to heroin.
- to peddle/smoke dope
- He has admitted smoking dope as a teenager.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + dope- smoke
- smoking
- fiend
- pedlar/peddler
- …
- [uncountable] a drug that is taken by a person or given to an animal to affect their performance in a race or sport
- The athlete failed a dope test (= a medical test showed that he had taken such drugs).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + dope- smoke
- smoking
- fiend
- pedlar/peddler
- …
- [countable] (informal) a stupid person synonym idiot
- [uncountable] the dope (on somebody/something) (informal) information on somebody/something, especially details that are not generally known
- Give me the dope on the new boss.
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in the sense ‘thick liquid’): from Dutch doop ‘sauce’, from doopen ‘to dip, mix’.
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