dope time
dope time noun: the displacement or distortion of time while under the influence of narcotics.
Noun
dope time (uncountable)
- The displacement or distortion of time while under the influence of narcotics.
- Dope has a life of its own. There is dope-time, dope-weather, dope-sleep. All one does is wait. The feeling of kicking a dope habit cannot be described.1990, Bo Houston, Horse and Other Stories, page 90
- Set over the period of one day, 'real time' is relentlessly giving way to dope time. As with Walter Benjamin's stoned perception in the Marseilles café (or stoned perception for any of us), time here charts its own terrains, liberating itself from a subordination to movements, objects or spaces.2001, Screen - Volume 42, page 370
- Synonyms:
- doper time
Synonyms of dope time
Questions about dope time
- What does dope time mean?
- Dope time means the displacement or distortion of time while under the influence of narcotics.
- What part of speech is dope time?
- Dope time is a noun.
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