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Noun: dope  dowp
  1. [slang] A street name for marijuana
    - pot [slang], grass [slang], green goddess [slang], weed [slang], gage [slang], sess [slang], sens [slang], smoke [slang], skunk [slang], locoweed [N. Amer, slang], Mary Jane [slang]
     
  2. [informal] An ignorant or foolish person
    - dumbbell [informal], dummy [informal], boob [informal], booby, pinhead [informal], div [Brit, informal], poon [Austral, informal], divvy [Brit, informal]
     
  3. [US] Carbonated drink flavoured with extract from kola nuts
    - cola
     
  4. [slang] Slang term for inside information
    "is that the straight dope?";
    - poop [N. Amer, slang], the skinny [N. Amer, slang], low-down [slang]
Verb: dope  dowp
  1. Take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
     
  2. (electronics) add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties
    "The resistors have been doped"
     
  3. (medicine) give a narcotic to
    "The athletes were doped by the coach before the race";
    - dope up

Derived forms: doping, dopes, doped

Type of: alter, cannabis, change, dagga [S.Africa], details, do drugs, dose, drug, ganja, inside information, marihuana, marijuana, modify, simple [archaic], simpleton, soft drink

Encyclopedia: Dope