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dope out

dope out verb: to figure out, to find out, find, decipher.

Verb

dope out (third-person singular simple present dopes out, present participle doping out, simple past and past participle doped out)

  1. (colloquial, dated, transitive) To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
    • "All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her."1906, O. Henry, The Green Door
    • "I was fed up with trying to peddle the rubberized paint, and my reckoning was that with a little dough to tide me over I could spend a week or two looking for something else, perhaps dope out a way to get back to college, for I had not altogether given up on that."1953, S. Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

Forms of dope out

third-person singular presentdopes out
present participledoping out
past participledoped out
pastdoped out

Questions about dope out

What does dope out mean?
Dope out means to figure out, to find out, find, decipher.
What part of speech is dope out?
Dope out is a verb.
What is the past tense of dope out?
The past tense of dope out is doped out.

Words near dope out in the dictionary

  1. dope house
  2. dope houses
  3. dope man
  4. dope men
  5. dope off
  6. dope out
  7. dope set
  8. dope sets
  9. dope sheet
  10. dope sheets
  11. dope sick

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