dopes

Noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

1. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
   • Use a good pipe dope on the NPT threads. When applying pipe dope do not put any on the first two threads from the end. Always put dope on the male thread—never on the female thread.1977, Robert O. Parmley, Standard Handbook of Fastening and Joining, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 247
2. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
3. (uncountable) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (slang, uncountable) Any of various recreational substances
   • Do you remember me? / How we used to be / Helpless and happy and blind? / Sunk without hope / In a haze of good dope / And cheap wine?1968, Roger Waters, “Incarceration Of A Flower Child”, performed by Marianne Faithfull, published 1999
5. (slang) An opiate, now particularly heroin.
   • If you are at all bright, don't be a grind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, in The Naughty-Naughtian, page 118
6. (slang) Marijuana.
   • (Senator): Well good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have!
     (Farmer): 'Taint corn. It's dope.1981 September 26, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (comic)

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