DOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dope mean? 

• DOPE (noun)
  The noun DOPE has 4 senses:

1. street names for marijuana

2. an ignorant or foolish person

3. carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States)

4. slang terms for inside information

  Familiarity information: DOPE used as a noun is uncommon.

• DOPE (verb)
  The verb DOPE has 3 senses:

1. take drugs to improve one's athletic performance

2. add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties

3. give a narcotic to

  Familiarity information: DOPE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Street names for marijuana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed

Hypernyms ("dope" is a kind of...):

cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)

Derivation:

dope (give a narcotic to)

dope (take drugs to improve one's athletic performance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An ignorant or foolish person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boob; booby; dope; dumbbell; dummy; pinhead

Hypernyms ("dope" is a kind of...):

simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)

Derivation:

dopey; dopy (having or revealing stupidity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cola; dope

Hypernyms ("dope" is a kind of...):

soft drink (nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated))

Meronyms (substance of "dope"):

cola nut; kola nut (bitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dope"):

Coca Cola; Coke (Coca Cola is a trademarked cola)

Pepsi; Pepsi Cola (Pepsi Cola is a trademarked cola)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Slang terms for inside information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dope; low-down; poop; the skinny

Context example:

is that the straight dope?

Hypernyms ("dope" is a kind of...):

details; inside information (true confidential information)

• DOPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dope    ... he / she / it dopes   
Past simple: doped   
Past participle: doped   
-ing form: doping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take drugs to improve one's athletic performance

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "dope" is one way to...):

do drugs; drug (use recreational drugs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

dope (street names for marijuana)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The resistors have been doped

Hypernyms (to "dope" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give a narcotic to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

dope; dope up

Context example:

The athletes were dope by the coach before the race

Hypernyms (to "dope" is one way to...):

dose; drug (administer a drug to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dope"):

soup (dope (a racehorse))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

dope (street names for marijuana)

 Context examples 

One of the biggest fabrication challenges was inserting small amounts of other elements into the silicon, or doping it, so that it would reflect infrared light like a metal.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

That's straight dope. I feel it in my bones.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Carbon nanotubes can also be "doped," or modified with small amounts of other elements, giving them electrical properties that include fully insulating, semiconducting, and fully conducting.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Biopolymers and elastomers doped with ferromagnetic CrO2 will heat up when exposed to laser or sunlight, temporarily losing their magnetic properties until they cool down again.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"I was out to the races to-day, and I had the right dope."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)