dope🔊

Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

(aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.

(slang) Any of various recreational substances:

An opiate, now particularly heroin.

Marijuana.

(slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. +

(firearms) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.

(slang) A stupid person. +

(Ohio) Dessert topping.

(Appalachia) A soft drink. Otherwise known as soda or pop.

(slang) To affect with drugs. +

To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).

(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

(sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.

(dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

(slang) Amazing; cool. +