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dope stick

dope stick noun: a cigarette.

Noun

dope stick (plural dope sticks)

  1. (slang) A cigarette.
    • H.D. Floyd, who sells cigars and things for Charles B. Perkins Co., has got all the cigarette fiends going on a new Egyption dope stick called Pappas.1912 February, Edwin L. Le Butt, “With the Traveling Men”, in Board of Trade Journal, volume 24, number 10, page 539
    • "Polly," says I, "I'm chaiarman of the house committee, and if you light up that dope stick in here I'll be court-martialed— maybe lose my job forever."1917, Sewell Ford, Shorty McCabe Looks 'em Over, page 230
  2. (broadly, slang) A pipe or cigar.
    • Have we any other landlord? (Taking stem of narghille from RANJE'S mouth) Here! (Lifting narghille from floor) Take that dope-stick out of your mouth, and give your brains a chance.1918, Edgar Selwyn, Nearly Married: A Farce in Three Acts, page 44
    • Miss Frumperts paused to extract a dope-stick from the Ambassadorial humidor, perfunctorily offering one to her guests.1986, Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins, page 170
  3. (slang) A marijuana joint or cigar laced with cocaine.
    • He hands the dope-stick to his partner who drives with one hand on the steering-wheel and the other toking on the blunt.2010, Reverend James R. Harris, Jesus in Columbus, page 6
    • She shrugged and set down the dope stick she'd been puffing on.2012, Alan Dean Foster, The Moment of the Magician
  4. (slang) A penis suffering from priapism as a result of cocaine or heroin.
    • […] and have that sort of dope sex where you can fuck for eight hours. They call it a dope stick. You stay up forever but you have a hard time, you know, finishing.2006, Hugh T. Wilson, Drugs, Society, and Behavior, page 55
    • If you can manage an erection, you get what they call a dope stick: hard for hours with no ability to climax.2008, Mike Sager, Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends
  5. A stick or applicator for spreading dope (a viscous liquid or paste used in preparing a surface) on a surface.
    • In case of the piston rods running hot it may be used very effectively by mixing it with the engine lubricating oil in a can and applying it to the rods with a "dope-stick" as a result of which they will run cool.1902 April, “Graphite as a Lubricant”, in Threshermen's Review, volume 11, number 4, page 11
    • Apply dope to any hole pierce by tester, using dope stick in end of tester.1967, Army Aviation Maintenance Engineering Manual Shop Practices, page 116

Examples of dope stick in a sentence

  • You know how a cigaret fiend is when he gets up in the morning and can't find a dope stick?2018, John Canemaker, Winsor McCay: His Life and Art:
  • "Stick that in your dope stick and smoke it," muttered a trooper.2003, Timothy Pilgrim, Ro, page 177:
  • Before he could finish his dope stick, a dope fiend came up asking for a twenty rock of crack.2014, Mr. Mafia, The Last Birdman, page 40:
  • The lawman chuckled and stirred his dope stick around in the bucket on the ground near his scuffed, grease-smeared boots.2009, Peter Brandvold, .45-Caliber Widow Maker:

Forms of dope stick

pluraldope sticks
alternative formdope-stick
alternative formdopestick

Questions about dope stick

What does dope stick mean?
Dope stick means a cigarette.
How do you use dope stick in a sentence?
You know how a cigaret fiend is when he gets up in the morning and can't find a dope stick?
What part of speech is dope stick?
Dope stick is a noun.
What is the plural of dope stick?
The plural of dope stick is dope sticks.

Words near dope stick in the dictionary

  1. dope sick
  2. dope sickness
  3. dope sicknesses
  4. dope slap
  5. dope slaps
  6. dope stick
  7. dope sticks
  8. dope stories
  9. dope story
  10. dope time
  11. dope up

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