dope
part of speech
noun (a dope, dopes; dope, uncountable); verb (dope, dopes, doped, doping); adjective (dope — slang)
meaning for a pupil
1) (informal) A dope is a silly or foolish person. tree →
2) (slang) Dope is an illegal drug, especially cannabis. tree →
3) Doping is giving drugs to an athlete or animal to cheat in sport or to make someone sleepy. tree →
4) (slang, US) Dope means great or cool. tree →
5) (informal) The dope on something is the inside information about it. tree →
sense in the lessons
Heard in teasing among friends, in sport news (doping scandals, drug tests), in safety lessons about drugs, and in slang; tells the reader someone is being silly, cheating or using drugs.
examples
- Don't be such a dope, the door says «pull»! tree →
- Athletes are tested to stop doping. tree →
- The cyclist was banned for doping. tree →
- The police found dope in the car. tree →
- (slang) Those trainers are dope! tree →
- Give me the dope on the new teacher. tree →
- The racehorse had been doped, so it was disqualified. tree →
note
Mild insult but still unkind. «Dopey» = sleepy or silly (one of the seven dwarfs). Doping in sport is cheating and is banned; illegal drugs are dangerous and against the law.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dope» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.