Doper vs Dope - What's the difference?
doper | dope |
(pejorative) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
* 2003: Sam
* 2006: Matt Seaton,
(pejorative) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
* 2003: Lt. John Hadily,
* 2006: Gene Seymour,
* 2006: , Anthony Cormier,
(obsolete) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
(dope)
founded by nathan vega in 2013 9/05/13
(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.
As verbs the difference between doper and dope
is that doper is while dope is .As an adjective dope is
doped.doper
English
Noun
(en noun)"I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLarkin 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.
Tour de farce, Guardian Unlimited
- ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.
ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIALin 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.
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.
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.
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* * ----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 !