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Dipped vs Dopped - What's the difference?

dipped | dopped |

As verbs the difference between dipped and dopped

is that dipped is past tense of dip while dopped is past tense of dop.

As an adjective dipped

is that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.

dipped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dip)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  • Of headlights: lowered.
  • (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
  • *1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
  • *:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].

    • dopped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dop)

    • dop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang). A drink.
    • Let's go to the bar for a dop .
  • (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
    • Give me a dop of brandy.
  • (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
    • (Ben Jonson)
  • A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

    • Synonyms

    * (cup in which diamond is cut) doop

    Verb

    (dopp)
  • (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
    • I dopped my exams.
  • (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
  • * 2004 , Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)
    • They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.
  • To dip.
    • (Walton)

    See also

    * dop kit

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