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Word entry · 4 letters

dope

Best crossword clue

"Narcotic, slangily"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation [dəʊp]Part of speech verb, nounSorted deopStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. give a narcotic to

Word origin

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.

Used in a sentence

  • Use a good pipe dope on the NPT threads. When applying pipe dope do not put any on the first two threads from the end. Always put dope on the male thread—never on the female thread.
  • Do you remember me? / How we used to be / Helpless and happy and blind? / Sunk without hope / In a haze of good dope / And cheap wine?
  • But she went her way. Not until she accompanied a girl to an opium joint to discover whether dope had the merits claimed for it as a deadener of pain and a producer of happiness—not until then did Freddie come in person.

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