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# dope

«dope» in Mova's school dictionary: **a silly or foolish person** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#m1)

2) (slang) Dope is an illegal drug, especially cannabis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#m2)

3) Doping is giving drugs to an athlete or animal to cheat in sport or to make someone sleepy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#m3)

4) (slang, US) Dope means great or cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#m4)

5) (informal) The dope on something is the inside information about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x1)
- Athletes are tested to stop doping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x2)
- The cyclist was banned for doping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x3)
- The police found dope in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x4)
- (slang) Those trainers are dope! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x5)
- Give me the dope on the new teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x6)
- The racehorse had been doped, so it was disqualified. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dope/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.