doping

Verb

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

1. (slang, transitive) To affect with drugs.
   • Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. "Talk is cheap," said Long Bill Hodge. "What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night."1915, Jack London, chapter 2, in The Star Rover

   Synonyms:

   administer

2. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
3. (transitive) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
   • Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom.2011, Cathleen Shamieh, Gordon McComb, Electronics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113
4. (intransitive) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.
   • The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use.2015, Vassilis Barkoukis, Lambros Lazuras, Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis, The Psychology of Doping in Sport, Routledge, →ISBN
5. (dated, slang, transitive) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

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