dope

Drugs taken for pleasure, especially illegal ones.

• They were smoking dope outside.
• The police found dope in his bag.
• She stopped buying dope after leaving college.

Similar words: drugs, weed

Common phrases: smoke dope, sell dope, buy dope

Information about something, especially facts that few people know.

• Give me the latest dope.
• He had the inside dope on tomorrow’s race.
• What’s the dope on the proposed merger?

How to use it: dope on someone/something (Have you got the latest dope on the new manager?)

Similar words: information, news, inside information

Common phrases: the latest dope, dope on something, inside dope

A thick liquid or paste put on a surface to protect or prepare it.

• Brush the dope onto the fabric.
• The coating of dope dried overnight.
• They used dope to protect the aircraft’s fabric covering.

Similar words: coating compound

Common phrases: aircraft dope, apply dope, coat with dope

A material that takes in liquid and holds it.

• The dope holds the liquid.
• They chose a porous material as the dope.
• The liquid was absorbed into the dope.

Similar words: absorbent, absorbent material

Common phrases: absorbent dope, liquid in dope

To take drugs, especially banned ones that improve performance in sport.

• Some athletes dope to win.
• He denied doping before the race.
• Cyclists caught doping may receive lengthy bans.

How to use it: dope with something (The cyclist admitted doping with steroids.)

Common phrases: dope before competing, dope with steroids

To give someone or an animal drugs that change how they feel or perform.

• Someone had doped her drink.
• The horse was doped before the race.
• They found that the athlete had been doped with a banned substance.

How to use it: dope someone/something with something (The horse had been doped with a banned drug.)

Similar words: drug

Common phrases: dope someone, dope a horse, dope with something

To cover or treat a surface with a thick protective liquid or paste.

• They doped the aircraft’s wings.
• The worker doped the fabric and left it to dry.
• This surface must be doped before use.

How to use it: dope something with something (They doped the fabric with a protective liquid.)

Similar words: coat, treat

Common phrases: dope the fabric, dope a surface, dope with something

To add a small amount of another substance to a material to change its electrical properties.

• The engineers doped the silicon.
• This crystal was doped with arsenic.
• Manufacturers dope semiconductors to control how they conduct electricity.

How to use it: dope something with something (They dope silicon with boron to change its conductivity.)

Common phrases: dope silicon, dope a semiconductor, dope with boron