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Doper vs Coper - What's the difference?

doper | coper |

As nouns the difference between doper and coper

is that doper is one who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally while coper is one who copes.

As an adjective doper

is comparative of dope.

doper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
  • * 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard
    • Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers " especially XC skiing.
  • * 2006: Matt Seaton, Tour de farce , Guardian Unlimited
    • ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.
  • (pejorative) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
  • * 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs
    • I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong.
  • * 2006: Gene Seymour, Clerks II , Newsday
    • With the Kwik-Mart leveled by fire, Dante and Randal's professional aspirations take a southerly route to a Mooby's fast-food restaurant where dopey dopers Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) have followed with their boombox and illicit activities.
  • * 2006: , Anthony Cormier, Father: 'We're here to find her body' , HeradTribune.com
    • Tamara Toy was a blue-eyed daughter of a preacher, growing up good and God-fearing but eventually getting lost along the way, falling in with dopers and felons and a petty crook who stole her heart.
  • (obsolete) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.

    • Adjective

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  • (dope)
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    coper

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who copes.
  • * 2001 , Lawrence C. R. Snyder, Coping with Stress (page 244)
    • And people who were adaptive copers early in life are likely to cope successfully with the losses that they encounter late in life.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A floating grog shop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.

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