Definition of Dope

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Definition of Dope

Dope

Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.

Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate.

An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps.

Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; sometimes, similar information concerning other sports.

To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin;

To give stupefying drugs to; to drug.

To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing.

To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope.

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Dope Quotations

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.
Layne Staley

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
Billie Holiday

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
Billie Holiday

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
James Caan

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
Abbie Hoffman

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.
Method Man

Dope Translations

dope in German is aufpulvern, dotieren
dope in Norwegian is narkotikum, dop, stoff
dope in Swedish is knark

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