dopping

Verb (1)

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
   • I dopped my exams.
2. To dip or duck.
   • you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The...

Verb (2)

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
   • They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170

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