dope up

1. 1.

   give a narcotic to

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

   Synonymsdope

   Broaderdrug

   Narrowersoup

   medicine

Questions about dope up

What does dope up mean?

dope up means "give a narcotic to".

What is another word for dope up?

Close synonyms include dope. 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 up a common word?

dope up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.