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

Derived forms: doped, dopes

See also: dopy

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

Encyclopedia: Dope