OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 10894

dope

[dəʊp]
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dopar
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…
Now, suppose another veterinarian should come along with another medicine, named “Goine;” and that a quart of it would make a horse go twice as fast, and you should dope the horse…
dopar
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.
doparse
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…