dopes

Meaning of dopes

plural noun
  1. a drug taken illegally for recreational purposes, especially cannabis.
    my dad caught me smoking dope
  2. a stupid person.
    though he wasn't an intellectual giant, he was no dope either
  3. information about a subject, especially if not generally known.
    our reviewer will give you the dope on hot spots around the town
  4. a varnish formerly applied to fabric surfaces of aircraft to strengthen them and keep them airtight.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. administer drugs to (a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete) in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance.
    the horse was doped before the race
  2. smear or cover with varnish or other thick liquid.
    she doped the surface with photographic emulsion
  3. add an impurity to (a semiconductor) to produce a desired electrical characteristic.

early 19th century (in the sense ‘thick liquid’): from Dutch doop ‘sauce’, from doopen ‘to dip, mix’.

Information about dopes

Hyphenation of dopes

dopes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dopes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dopes synonyms

Meaning a substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects, often illegally:

drugs

Meaning a drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally:

narcotics

Meaning a dried preparation of the flowering tops or other parts of the cannabis plant, or a resinous extract of it ( cannabis resin ), smoked or consumed, generally illegally, as a psychoactive (mind-:

cannabis

Meaning a highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria:

heroin

Meaning a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person:

fool

Meaning a stupid person:

idiot, blockhead, dolt, imbecile, moron, clod, dumbo, dummy, jackass, bonehead, fathead, dunderhead, chucklehead, knucklehead, muttonhead, thickhead, lamebrain, berk, pillock, chowderhead, dumbhead, alec

Meaning a foolish or stupid person:

halfwit, nincompoop, ass, goof

Meaning a ridiculous but amusing person; a clown:

buffoon

Meaning a person who is slow at learning; a stupid person:

dunce

Meaning an ignorant or stupid person:

ignoramus

Meaning a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse):

cretin

Meaning a slow or stupid person:

dullard

Meaning a foolish or gullible person:

simpleton

Meaning a foolish and weak person:

ninny

Meaning a foolish or easily deceived person:

chump

Meaning a stupid or silly person:

dimwit

Meaning a silly or foolish person (often as a general term of abuse):

nitwit

Meaning a silly, foolish, or eccentric person:

goon

Meaning a silly or foolish person:

loon, twit, simp, spoony

Meaning a stupid or foolish person:

numbskull

Meaning a base close to the area of active operations where supplies and troops can be received and evacuated by air:

airhead

Meaning the round head of a pin:

pinhead

Meaning a silly or stupid person:

birdbrain

Meaning a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions:

zombie

Meaning a contemptibly foolish person:

jerk

Meaning a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious:

nerd

Meaning a graduated rod for measuring the depth of a liquid, especially oil in a vehicle's engine:

dipstick

Meaning a stupid or inept person:

donkey, squarehead

Meaning a very thin, long strip of pasta or a similar flour paste, eaten with a sauce or in a soup:

noodle

Meaning the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a human head louse attached to a hair:

nit

Meaning a stupid or ineffectual person:

numpty

Meaning a foolish or clumsy person:

clot

Meaning a stupid person; a fool:

goat

Meaning a foolish or inept person:

plonker, dingleberry

Meaning an incompetent or stupid person; an idiot:

prat

Meaning a silly or inept person:

wally

Meaning an unpleasant or contemptible person:

git

Meaning a dividend or share, especially of profits earned by a cooperative:

divvy

Meaning a foolish, objectionable, or insignificant person:

nerk

Meaning a silly or annoying person:

twerp

Meaning a fool:

charlie, boofhead

Meaning a stupid or gullible person:

mug

Meaning an incompetent or foolish person:

muppet

Meaning a stupid, irritating, or insignificant person:

nyaff

Meaning a small coloured rubber bag which is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration:

balloon

Meaning a stupid or clumsy person:

sumph

Meaning an awkward or foolish person (often used as a general term of abuse):

gowk

Meaning a foolish or contemptible person:

schmuck, gink

Meaning a stupid or insignificant man:

bozo

Meaning an embarrassing mistake:

boob

Meaning a stupid, inept, or dull person:

lamer

Meaning a large mainly domesticated game bird native to North America, having a bald head and (in the male) red wattles. It is a popular food on festive occasions such as Christmas and (in the US) Thanksgivin:

turkey

Meaning an inept or stupid person:

schlepper

Meaning a stupid or contemptible person:

dumbass

Meaning a naive or stupid person:

goofball

Meaning a clumsy or stupid person (often as a term of abuse):

galoot

Meaning a contemptible, socially inept person:

dork

Meaning a clumsy, stupid person:

lummox

Meaning a clumsy, awkward, or foolish person:

klutz

Meaning a stupid or worthless person:

putz

Meaning a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person:

schlemiel

Meaning the fluid which circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts:

sap

Meaning a ball of minced or chopped meat:

meatball

Meaning the short, low sound made by a hen:

cluck

Meaning a dull sound such as that made by heavy metal objects striking together:

clunk

Meaning a stupid or eccentric person:

dingbat

Meaning a frankfurter or similar sausage:

wiener

Meaning tiny:

weeny

Meaning a brief swim:

dip

Meaning a potato:

spud

Meaning an aquatic bird of the rail family, with blackish plumage, lobed feet, and a bill that extends back on to the forehead as a horny shield:

coot

Meaning a stupid, clumsy, or uncouth person:

palooka

Meaning the aftermost and highest deck of a ship, especially in a sailing ship where it typically forms the roof of a cabin in the stern:

poop

Meaning a songbird with glossy black plumage and typically a long forked tail and a crest, found in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia:

drongo

Meaning an aromatic annual herb of the parsley family, with fine blue-green leaves and yellow flowers. The leaves or seeds are used for flavouring and for medicinal purposes:

dill

Meaning a small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts:

galah

Meaning a foolish or stupid person (often as a general term of abuse):

nong

Meaning an uncouth or unsophisticated person regarded as being of low social status:

bogan

Meaning a simple or foolish person:

poon

Meaning a foolish person:

tomfool, noddy, mooncalf

Meaning a foolish, awkward, or clumsy person:

clodpole

Meaning a reddish-brown turtle with a very large head, occurring chiefly in warm seas:

loggerhead

Meaning facts provided or learned about something or someone:

information

Meaning an individual fact or item:

details

Meaning a detail:

particulars

Meaning information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article:

facts

Meaning a number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company:

figures

Meaning the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample:

statistics

Meaning facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis:

data

Meaning facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject:

knowledge

Meaning military or political information:

intelligence

Meaning a direction or order:

instruction

Meaning guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action:

advice

Meaning advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as given by someone in authority:

guidance

Meaning a course along which someone or something moves:

direction

Meaning advice, especially that given formally:

counsel

Meaning the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened:

enlightenment

Meaning newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent events:

news

Meaning the fact of observing or paying attention to something:

notice

Meaning a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed:

word

Meaning information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work:

material

Meaning material that provides official information or evidence or that serves as a record:

documentation

Meaning a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record:

documents

Meaning information:

info

Meaning useless or tedious printed material:

bumf

Meaning details:

deets

Meaning administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility:

drug

Meaning (of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities:

disable

Meaning make (someone) unable to think or feel properly:

stupefy

Meaning calm, dignified, and unhurried:

sedate

Meaning make (someone) unable to think clearly:

befuddle

Meaning make (someone) drunk; intoxicate:

inebriate

Meaning (of alcoholic drink or a drug) cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties or behaviour:

intoxicate

Meaning affect with or as if with a narcotic drug:

narcotize

Meaning prevent from functioning in a normal way:

incapacitate

Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:

weaken

Meaning administer an anaesthetic to (a person or animal), especially so as to induce a loss of consciousness:

anaesthetize

Meaning tamper with (a racehorse or greyhound) to prevent it from winning a race, especially by giving it a drug:

nobble

Anagrams of dopes

Podes, posed, Spode, spode

Words that rhyme with dopes

opes, Cercopes, Scopes, Vertoscopes, aethrioscopes, apocopes, arthroscopes, auriscopes, baroscopes, benthoscopes, bioscopes, borescopes, bronchoscopes, chromoscopes, chronoscopes, colonoscopes, colposcopes, copes, cryoscopes, cystoscopes, diascopes, dichrooscopes, dichroscopes, dipleidoscopes, ebullioscopes, electroscopes, endoscopes, engiscopes, engyscopes, epidiascopes, episcopes, fetoscopes, fiberscopes, fluoroscopes, galvanoscopes, gastroscopes, gyroscopes, hagioscopes, helioscopes, hodoscopes, horoscopes, hydroscopes, hygroscopes, iconoscopes, iriscopes, kaleidoscopes, kinescopes, kinetoscopes, koniscopes, lactoscopes

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