Dope vs Griff - What's the difference?
dope | griff | Related terms |
(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
(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(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.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
(obsolete) grasp; reach
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(weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
(colloquial, slang) marijuana.
Dope is a related term of griff.
As a verb dope
is .As an adjective dope
is doped.As a noun griff is
(india) griffin, (white) newcomer or griff can be (obsolete) grasp; reach or griff can be (colloquial|slang) marijuana.dope
English
Noun
- 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.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !
Anagrams
* * * * ----griff
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from earlier (griffin).Etymology 2
Compare (grip), (gripe).Noun
(en noun)- A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff .
- (Knight)