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Synonyms for dope

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for dope

a substance that affects the central nervous system and is often addictive

to administer or add a drug to

dope out: to find a solution for

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Synonyms for dope

an ignorant or foolish person

carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States)

slang terms for inside information

take drugs to improve one's athletic performance

Related Words

add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties

give a narcotic to

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And Bolt, who holds the world records in the 100m and 200m, insisted dopers are endangering the future of athletics.
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During the meeting, emphasis was placed on the importance of finding medical check-up mechanisms to spot dopers and to confront the problem with punitive measures, with sub-committees established in governorates.Head of the Syrian General Sports Federation Mwaffaq Jomaa said the Committee aims at curbing the spread of doping as it poses a threat to the youth and the future of sport.The Committee is due to hold a meeting on January 24 to discuss means of activating its work.M.
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A few years later I used one while rolling around in a "cool car" watching dopers ply their trade.
Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists.
The drug busts are the result of a global programme of increased out-of-competition screenings, including targeted testing of suspected dopers, to weed out as many dirty athletes as possible from the 10,000 competitors coming to Beijing for the August 8-24 Games.
As gene therapy begins to enjoy some preliminary successes, scientists at the World Anti-Doping Agency, which oversees drug testing for the Olympics, have started to worry that dopers might now see abuse of gene therapy in sport as a viable option, though the practice was banned by WADA in 2003.
I got duped, not doped, and bought tickets to Hayward Field to watch Tim Montgomery, Regina Jacobs and Marion Jones run and throw, not knowing they were dopers. Now, I'm supposed to be excited about next year's Olympic Trials.
In a sense, the fact that the dopers and cheaters are being caught, exposed and expelled is good news.
But even if gene dopers somehow make it to the Olympics before the test is ready, the agency says they still should worry.
You can't call him a bone-dumb doper, because that would be an insult to bone-dumb dopers.
They hand out inadequate bans and then allow the dopers back in to compete when their suspensions are over.