1. A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
   "She kneaded the pizza dough until it was smooth and elastic"
    
2. [informal] The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
   "we tried to collect the dough he owed us";
   - money, coin [US, informal], boodle [informal], bread [informal], cabbage [US, informal], clams [US, informal], dinero [N. Amer, informal], gelt [informal], kale [US, informal], lettuce [US, informal], lolly [Brit, informal], lucre [informal], loot [informal], moolah [N. Amer, informal], pelf [archaic, informal], scratch [informal], shekels [informal], simoleons [US, informal], sugar [informal], wampum [N. Amer, informal], wonga [Brit, informal], moola [N. Amer, informal], brass [Brit, informal], dibs [archaic, informal], spondulix [Brit, informal], spondulicks [Brit, informal], mazuma [US, informal], dosh [Brit, informal]

Sounds like: doh, do

Derived forms: doughs

Type of: concoction, intermixture, medium of exchange, mixture, monetary system

Part of: money supply

Encyclopedia: Dough