dope

1. 1.

   street names for marijuana

   Synonymspotgrassgreen goddessweedgagesesssenssmokeskunklocoweedMary Jane

   Broadercannabis
2. 2.

   an ignorant or foolish person

   Synonymsdumbbelldummyboobboobypinhead

   Broadersimpleton
3. 3.

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

   Synonymscola

   Broadersoft drink

   NarrowerCoca ColaPepsi

   United States

4. 4.

   slang terms for inside information

   “is that the straight dope?”

   Synonymspoopthe skinnylow-down

   Broaderdetails

1. 1.

   take drugs to improve one's athletic performance

   Broaderdrug
2. 2.

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

   “The resistors have been doped”

   Broaderchange

   electronics

3. 3.

   give a narcotic to

   “The athletes were dope by the coach before the race”

   Synonymsdope up

   Broaderdrug

   Narrowersoup

   medicine

Other forms of dope

plural

dopes·

past tense

doped·

present participle

doping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dope

What does dope mean?

dope means "street names for marijuana". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dope?

dope has 1 syllable: dope. In IPA it is /ˈdoʊp/.

What is another word for dope?

Close synonyms include pot, grass, green goddess, weed, gage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dope a common word?

dope is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.