dope

noun

1. (uncountable)Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

   “Use a good pipe dope on the NPT threads. When applying pipe dope do not put any on the first two threads from the end. Always put dope on the male thread—never on the female thread.”

2. (uncountable)An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
3. (uncountable)Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (slang, uncountable)Any of various recreational substances

   “Do you remember me? / How we used to be / Helpless and happy and blind? / Sunk without hope / In a haze of good dope / And cheap wine?”

5. (countable, slang, uncountable)Any of various recreational substances:

   “If you are at all bright, don't be a grind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.”

   “But she went her way. Not until she accompanied a girl to an opium joint to discover whether dope had the merits claimed for it as a deadener of pain and a producer of happiness—not until then did Freddie come in person.”

   “Here's a cure for all your troubles / Here's an end to all distress / It's the old dope peddler / With his powdered happiness”

   “We watched as he got his works and squirted water out first, then stuck the tip of the needle into the dope and sucked it up before finding a vein and sticking it into his arm.”

6. (countable, slang, uncountable)Any of various recreational substances:

   “(Senator): Well good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have! (Farmer): 'Taint corn. It's dope.”

   “Some people say that dope kills brain cells, but I can't figure out how they found that out. I mean, how do you tell if a brain cell is dead and how do you tell what killed it? I've probably wasted a lot more brain cells through booze than through dope.”

   “She had gotten pregnant while stoned, had undoubtedly decided to marry Roger Finney while stoned, and Peter knew for a fact that she had left Reed (carrying a one-point-forget-it grade average) because there was too much dope floating around and she just couldn’t say no to it.”

   “At a suburban station, there were kids hanging around smoking dope, as ticketless entry through the exit doors is easy for them.”

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

   “What's the latest dope on the stock market?”

   “I got thru the lines and talked with the Captain and got all the Dope.^([sic])”

   “'Boss, one of them's just come in on Fifth. The Limey with the scar. Got a friend with him, but he don't seem to fit the dope on the other two.'”

   “Same with Michael Moore. When the people's champ gives us the dope on corporate bosses and sweatshop kings, he never presents their greed as some kind of deplorable personal trait.”

   ““Everyone seems less excited about the war here than out there. When I do get the dope on the poster situation, I will let you know.” He and Forsythe were itching to contribute to the war effort by designing recruitment posters.”

8. (uncountable)Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
9. (countable, derogatory, slang)A stupid person.

   “The reasons why this verification is made by her and not by the defendant is because he is a dope and a fat-head and hasn't sense enough to do it himself.”

   “You call that steering? We almost got killed! My fault? Yeah, step over here and say that, you stripey dope! That's right, I'm talking to you!”

   “— Я превращу в пыль все товары, и все столы, и всё оборудование этой презренной лавки! — Ты с ума сошёл! — вконец возмутился Волька.— Ведь это государственное добро, старая ты балда!”

10. (US, countable, uncountable)Dessert topping.
11. (Appalachia, countable, uncountable)A soft drink.
12. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of data on previous engagement.

verb

1. (slang, transitive)To affect with drugs.

   “Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. "Talk is cheap," said Long Bill Hodge. "What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night."”

   “Now, suppose another veterinarian should come along with another medicine, named “Goine;” and that a quart of it would make a horse go twice as fast, and you should dope the horse with both medicines […]”

2. (transitive)To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
3. (transitive)To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

   “Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom.”

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

   “The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use.”

5. (dated, slang, transitive)To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

adj

1. (slang)Amazing; cool.

   “That party was dope!”

   “The dope conceptual beauty of the Jungle Brothers is the upful spin they put on black consciousness music, showing that being pro-black can be as much about hot fun in the summertime as gearing up for the next time.”

   “That was dope, E. That shit was dope, man!”

   “Black women are dope: dope as an adjective, not as a noun or verb; dope in Black urban parlance.”