Definitions for doping

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doping dop·ing

Spelling: [doh-ping]

IPA: /ˈdoʊ pɪŋ/

Doping is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in doping (dginop).

Definitions for doping

noun

1. Slang. an act or instance of giving a narcotic, usually a steroid, to an athlete to unfairly boost performance in a competition.
2. Electronics. a method of adding a dopant to a pure semiconductor to change its electrical properties.
3. any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
4. an absorbent material used to absorb and hold a liquid, as in the manufacture of dynamite.
5. Aeronautics. any of various varnishlike products for coating a fabric, as of airplane wings, in order to make it waterproof, stronger, etc. a similar product used to coat the fabric of a balloon to reduce gas leakage.
6. Slang. any narcotic or narcoticlike drug taken to induce euphoria or satisfy addiction. any illicit drug.
7. Slang. a narcotic, usually a steroid, given to an athlete to unfairly boost performance in a competition.
8. Slang. a narcotic preparation given surreptitiously to a horse to improve or retard its performance in a race.
9. Slang. information, data, or news:
10. Informal. a stupid or unresponsive person.
11. Southern U.S. (chiefly South Atlantic States) . soda pop, especially cola-flavored.
12. North Central U.S. (chiefly Ohio) . syrup used as a topping for ice cream.

Verb phrases

1. dope out, Slang. to figure out; calculate; devise: to deduce or infer from available information:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to affect with dope or drugs.
2. Slang. to give a narcotic to (an athlete) to unfairly boost performance in a competition.
3. to apply or treat with dope.
4. Electronics. to add or treat (a pure semiconductor) with a dopant.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to take drugs.

Origin of doping

First recorded in 1950-55; dope + -ing¹

Examples for doping

Mr. Ellsworth was right when he said that Tom had a way of doping things out for himself.

Animal welfare advocates have decried these doping practices for years.

"The less you say about my doping, the better," snarled the other man.

What made me even madder was that Willie was doping my horse.

Armstrong never hid his doping from the (many) women in his life.

One possible way to defuse the financial incentives and advantages to doping is to legalize it.

Tell me if this man has been doping himself into unconsciousness.

I knew about the allegations of doping, but I didn't know them in great detail.

Porgee doping is a big thing all over the Hub at the moment.

The biggest revelation from Wheelmen broke last week: Sheryl Crow witnessing then-boyfriend Lance Armstrong doping.