doper

Noun

doper (plural dopers)

1. (derogatory) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
   • 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard
     Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers" especially XC skiing.
   • ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.2006, Matt Seaton, Tour de farce, Guardian Unlimited
2. (derogatory) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
   • That crafty old doper breaks out a "stick" of "tea" and they sit in the sun handing it back and forth, offering the waiter a hit...1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 375
   • 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs
     I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong.
3. (dated) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.