Collocations for "dope"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "dope" in context.
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dope
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- informal: [you're, don't be] such a dope!
- informal: tell those dopes to [shut up, do something useful, get over here]
- informal: you dope!
- informal: get over here, you big dope
- informal: what's the latest dope (in the office)?
- informal: get the latest dope on [Hollywood, the office, the star]
- informal: give me the straight dope
- informal, drugs: smoking dope [on the corner, outside the school]
- informal, drugs: has been [on, smoking, using] dope for years
- informal, drugs: bought [a gram, an ounce] of dope
- informal, drugs: got [caught, arrested for] selling dope
- informal, drugs: grows dope in [the yard, a warehouse]
- informal: the [horse, greyhound] was fed dope
- informal: a [suspected, major] dope dealer
- informal: dope [smoking, fiends, wars]
- informal: has [started, provoked, led to] a dope war
- the [runner, athlete] failed the dope test
- dope testing [regulations, methods, laboratories]
- [he, the cyclist, the athlete] was doping
- the horse was doped
- doped me (up) on [opioids, pain killers]
- had been doped to the [gills, eyeballs]
- the [victim, she] was doped
'dope' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):