Dope vs Dopa - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between dope and dopa

is that dope is while dopa is to baptize, to christen.

is doped.

(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,

(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.

* 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18

Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''

(uncountable, slang) Information.

* What's the latest dope on the stock market?

(countable, slang) A stupid person.

* See also

* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slap

(slang) To affect with drugs.

To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).

(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

(slang) To use drugs.

(er)

(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.

That party was dope !

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The amino acid (dihydroxyphenylalanine) that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain

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