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Dope

Definition: Dope

Dope

Noun

1. A soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect.

2. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.

3. An ignorant or foolish person.

4. Carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States).

5. Slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?".

Verb

1. Take dope.

2. Add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; in electronics: "The resistors have been doped".

3. Give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dope" was first used: 1807. (references)


Specialty Definition: Dope

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A compound with a pastelike consistency used on pipe threads when making a joint to lubricate the threads and assure a tight joint. Source: European Union. (references)

Chemical Industry

Cellulosester-lacquer for adhesive or coating purposes. Dope is used for impregnation of paper or canvas on air gliders, aeroplane wings, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Chemistry

Any of various additive substances or liquid preparations introduced into a substance or applied to a surface to contribute a desired quality. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Individual, dry, nonexplosive ingredients that comprise a portion of an explosive formulation. b. Absorbent material, as sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., used in certain manufacturing processes, as in making dynamite c. Heavy grease or other material used to protect or lubricate drill rods and/or open gears, chain and sprockets, etc. Also called gunk; rod dope; rod grease d. To apply a lubricant to drill rods, rod couplings, open gears, etc e. To doctor a drill diamond. See also:doctor f. A rubberlike compound applied to granite surfaces before inscriptions are cut in the granite g. A viscous liquid put on pipe threads to make a tight joint. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Catalan (sapastre), Dutch (zakkenwasser). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dope

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DOPE

EnglishDioleylphosphatidylethanolamineN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Dope

Synonyms: boob (n), booby (n), cannabis (n), cola (n), dumbbell (n), dummy (n), gage (n), ganja (n), grass (n), low-down (n), marihuana (n), marijuana (n), pinhead (n), poop (n), pot (n), sens (n), sess (n), skunk (n), smoke (n), the skinny (n), weed (n), dope up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dope

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discrimination

Dope, past performances.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dope

English words defined with "dope": arsinedope upsoup. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dope": AIRPLANE COVERER, artificial-fly tierbait tier, BALER, blender operatorCOMPOUND FILLER, CURING-PRESS OPERATORdope-and-fabric worker, doperFLY TIER, fly winder, FUSE MAKERGAS-LEAK INSPECTORhand finisherjoint supervisorleak locator, LEATHER COATER, leather dresser, load mixermaintenance inspector, MIXER OPERATOR I, mixing-house operatorPIPE-WRAPPING-MACHINE OPERATORseasoner, hand, SUPERVISOR, DOPING. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Dope" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (drug), French (dope), Manx (dope).

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Modern Usage: Dope

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well then everybody was a dope! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.)

Sen! I'm sorry I called you a dope beforeI take it back (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt)

The big dope. (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa)

Well, I see we have the usual assortment of dope fiends and drug addicts (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.)

All I'm saying is that you could have robbed banks, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded (The Longest Yard; writing credit: Albert S. Ruddy; Tracy Keenan Wynn)

Lyrics

Super, dope, def, and even outrageous (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

Without a dope beat to step to (Try Again; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Gave you a tape full of dope beats (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

It don't matter, he's dope (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

That doesn't mean that I'm out sellin' dope no no (Free Your Mind; performing artist: En Vogue)

Movie/TV Titles

The Outside Dope (1965)

Fiend of Dope Island (1961)

Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)

Mopey Dope (1944)

Joe Dope Helps Cause Inflation (1944)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dope

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amazing Dope Tales (reference)

  • Confessions of a Dope Dealer (reference)

  • Dope on a Rope - Oddments from the Mind of Kim Underwood (reference)

  • Dope, Inc.: The Book That Drove Henry Kissinger Crazy [PHOTOCOPY] (reference)

  • More of the Straight Dope (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Dope

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Born Free - Live Free - Drug Free : Nope to Dope Urgh! to Drugs. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

That deadly dope. Credit: Library of Congress.

Uncle Sam beating off "dope peddler", "bandit", and "white slaver" vultures from brood of the vulture, "prohibition". Credit: Library of Congress.

Josephus Daniels comes back to Washington and it looked like old times to see the former Navy Secretary calling at the White House and see him surrounded by newspaper men who used to get the last word on dope from the Navy from Mr. Daniels. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Dope!" Will John Bull's "pipe dream" ever come true? / F. Opper. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Dope".

PlayCaption
Blockhead; bonehead; dolt; donkey; dope; dunce; fool; halfwit; idiot; imbecile; jackass; jerk; nincompoop; nitwit; numskull; schmuck; simpleton; twerp; twit; ass; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead; boob; bore; buffoon; butt; chump; clod; clown; cretin; dimwi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dope

"Dope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.26% of the time. "Dope" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.26%14326,451
Lexical Verb (infinitive)5.81%9117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)1.29%2245,945
Noun (proper)0.65%1339,140
                    Total100.00%155N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dope

Expressions using "dope": dope addict dope fiend dope off dope out dope pot dope sheet dope up get the dope on give smb. the dope inside dope silly dope spill the dope. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dope": dope-addiction, dope-addled, Dope-book, dope-dealer, dope-dealing, dope-fiend, dope-free, dope-habit, dope-heads, dope-painted, dope-peddler, dope-peddling, dope-promoting, dope-pusher, dope-sheet, dope-smoking, dope-takers, dope-tested, dope-testing, dope-tribute.

Ending with "dope": horse-dope, post-dope.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dope

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dope war

2,280

dope game the

25

dope

716

2.2 cheat dope war

24

dope house record

226

dope house

24

the straight dope

204

dope house records.com

23

dope farmer

138

dope download free war

21

dope msn

127

dope messenger

20

slave on dope

97

edsel dope

18

2.2 dope war

97

city of dope

18

dope war game

70

dope war 2000

16

dope download war

63

dope music

15

cheat dope war

62

dope online war

15

band dope

53

dope pc pocket war

15

the dope show

45

2.1 dope war

15

shaggy 2 dope

44

2.2 dope key registration war

14

dope lyrics

41

dope rope

14

dope messenger msn

34

2 dope pic shaggy

14

dope lyrics slave

34

dope lyrics show

13

dope war registration key

29

2 dope picture shaggy

13

dope war 2.0

29

code dope farmer

12

dope palm war

28

dope pipe

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dope

Language Translations for "dope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

drogohem (drug), drogë (drug, junk, pot), parashikim (anticipation, contemplation, foreboding, forecast, foresight, precaution, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, vision), graso (grease), hajvan (animal, beast, donkey, idiot, imp, jackass, jay, moron, mutt, noodle), i jap narkozë (narcotize), informacion (data, despatch, dispatch, information, inquiry, light, material), lubrifikant (lubricant), përdor drogë, vernik (enamel, lacker, lacquer, varnish), parashikoj (adumbrate, anticipate, contemplate, divine, envision, forecast, foresee, foretaste, look forward to, predict, previse, prognosticate, time, visualize), planifikoj (aim, count on, forecast, lay on, plan, program, programme, project, schedule, scheme), rrotë (boob, moron, rack, rag-wheel, spool, wheel), stimulues (fillip, stimulant), trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), vaj (alas, bewailing, coronach, cry, fat, lachrymation, lament, lamentation, oil, seed oil, whine), narkotik (drug, junk, narcotic, opiate, soporific). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏معلومات (acquaintance, datum, information, input, notion, poop, reference), ‏معجون (confection, dentifrice, kneaded, mash, paste), ‏مخدرات (junk, stuff), ‏مخدر (anaesthetic, anaesthetized, anesthetic, anesthetized, benumbed, doped, drug, drugged, narcosis, narcotic, narcotized, opiate, pain killer, somnolent, soporific, stupefied, stupid, torpid), ‏غبى, ‏تناول مخدرات, ‏إستخلص (debrief, express, extract, separate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

опиат (narcotic, opiate), поглъщател, покривам с лак, покривам със смазка, проявител (developer), лъжливи сведения, абсорбер (absorber), аеролак, давам наркотици на, наркотик (acid, drug, lsd, narcotic, opiate, pep pill), узнавам тайно, опиум (hop, opium, poppy), вземам наркотици (drug in, hop up, pop), гъста течност, кока-кола (coke), тъпак (ass, blockhead, blunderhead, dimwit, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, thick, tomnoddy, witling, yo-yo), сведения (information, intelligence, record, report), упойвам (bemuse, hocus), упоявам (anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, intoxicate, put out, put under), наркоман (acid head, addict, drug addict, freak, head, junker, junkie, junky, narcotic). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

麻醉药. (various references)

   

Czech

  

droga (drug, narcotic), dopovat, pitomec (bonehead, chump, clown, idiot, imbecile, jackass, ninny, nitwit, twit), opium (opium), òouma (nincompoop). (various references)

   

Danish

  

dope-fernis, dope (boy, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, Helen, Henry, heroin, horse, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, Mrs.White, peanut butter, scag, smack, white boy, white girl, white lady), formsmoering (lubricant, mold lubricant). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spanlak, smeermiddel (lubricant, mold lubricant). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیش بینی کردن (Antedate, Forecast), تخدیرکردن (Drug, Stupefy), اگاهی (Acquaintance, Advice, Cognizance, Idea, Immediacy, Inkling, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception), داروی مخدر, دارودادن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

muottirasva (lubricant, mold lubricant), kyllästelakka, huumata (intoxicate, stun, stupefy). (various references)

   

French

  

dope. (various references)

   

German

  

schmiermittel (lubricant, lubricants, lubricative). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ντοπάρω. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kábítószer (acid, bang, candy, drug, hop, lsd, narcotic, narcotic drug). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

obat perangsang, obat bius (anaesthetic, chloroform, drug). (various references)

   

Italian

  

droga (drug, narcotic, spice). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

麻薬 (narcotic, narcotic drugs, opium). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まやく (narcotic, narcotic drugs, opium), と"ま (fool, idiot), と"ちき (dimwit, fool, idiot, numbskull). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

진한 액체. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ommidan (crackpot, cretin, featherbrain, fool, imbecile, loony, moron, mug, nutcase, twit, widgeon), oayllys (awareness, guidance, information, know-how, knowledge, lore), lutchynagh (blunderer, blunderhead, blundering, booby, bovine, bungler, bungling, nincompoop, ninny), druggey (drug), dopey, dope, cur druggey da (doctor, drug), cur druggey ayn, bun (base, basis, bottom, derivation, details, end, explanation, eye of storm, foot, foundation, heart, interpretation, news, origin, original, prime, principle, raw material, root, root cause, sole, source, stem, stool, stump, underneath). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

dop (drug), stoff (fabric), narkotikum. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opeday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lubrificante (lubricant, ointment). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

droga (drug, hop), drog (junk), unge (anoint, besmear, coat, dab, daub, dub, embrocate, grease, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil, oil smb.'s palms, palm, pomade, salve, smear, soap, whitewash), ulei pentru maşini, pronostica (prognosticate), narcotiza (drug, hocus, narcotize), narcotic (drug, narcotic, opiate, sleeping-drag, stupefacient), morfinã (morphia, morphine), lua stupefiante, informaţie (communication, datum, griffin, intelligence, knowledge, learning, piece of information, reference), emailare, administra un narcotic, acoperi cu o substanţã uleioasã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разбавлять (dilute, thin out, water down), густая смазка (grease), наркотик (drug, knock-out drops, narcotic, opiate, soporific), наносить пасту или лак, лакировать (lacker, lacquer), лак (lacker, lacquer, nail polish, patent leather, varnish), болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head), паста (dough, pasta, paste), дурманить...допинг, дурман (datura, jimson weed, jimsonweed, stramonium, thorn apple, thorn-apple), допинг. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

droga (drug), dopingovati, mazivo (fat, grease, lubricant, train oil), glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dato (datum, fact, voucher), droga (cocaine, drug, elixir, stuff), drogar (drug), lubricante del molde (lubricant, mold lubricant), estupefacientes (narcotic, narcotic analgesics), información (account, blow, data, enlightenment, information, intelligence, item), barniz (glaze, gloss, varnish, veneer), la mota, usar drogas, lubrificante del molde (lubricant, mold lubricant), mastuerzo (cress, dolt), memo (drip, fool, jerk, memorandum, sap, silly, softy), narcótico (drug, narcotic, opiate), narcotizar (drug, narcotize), unto para tela, informes (information, intelligence). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smörjmedel (lubricant, lubrication, lubricator), knark (junk, stuff), impregneringslack. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ยาเสพติ" (คำสแลง) (sugar), ข้อมูลลับ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

doping yapmak, dümen (cabal, cheat, helm, rig, rudder, steering wheel, trick, wheel), dinamit yapımında kullanılan madde, dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel, wile), doping (doping), uyuşturucu vermek (drug, hocus), çiriş (glair, paste, size), çirişlemek (glair, size, smear with paste), önceden kestirmek (dope out), üstesinden gelmek (accomplish, come through, cope, dope out, fix, get over, get the better of, go over big, handle, hurdle, lick, overcome, polish off, surmount, tide over), bilgi (acquaintance, cognizance, conveyance, data, Gen, gleanings, Griff, griffin, info, information, inside dope, instructions, intelligence, know how, knowledge, learning, line, lore, notice, report, savvy, word), cila (chaser, finish, finishing, glaze, glazing, gloss, luster, lustre, polish, polisher, polishing, rubbing varnish, shine, varnish, veneer, veneering, wax), esrar (cabala, cabbala, enigma, grass, hash, hasheesh, hashish, hay, hemp, joint, junk, marihuana, marijuana, mary jane, maryjane, mystery, pot, secrets, tea, weed), vernik (Japan, lacquer, polisher, varnish), uyarıcı vermek (hop up), çözüm bulmak (dope out, find a way out, solve), uyuşturucu madde (drug, hype, l.s.d., lsd., narcotic), yanıltıcı bilgi (inside dope), macun (cement, lute, paste, priming, priming material, putty), salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dopey, fool, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, stupid, sucker), sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), tahmin etmek (anticipate, calculate, cast off, conjecture, divine, dope out, estimate, extrapolate, forecast, guess, judge, presume, put down, suppose, surmise, take stock of), verniklemek (Japan, lacquer, varnish, varnish over). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розводити (breed, dilute, doctor), рознюхувати (nose about, nose around), одурманювати (fuddle, hocus), наркотик (drug, number, opiate, soporific), наркоман (addict, junkie, mindbender, narcotic, user), лакувати (lacker, lacquer, varnish), паста (dough, paste, spread), допінг. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người lơ mơ thẫn thờ, người đần độn (ass, beetle-brain, blockhead, boeotian, bone-head, chuckle-head, dolt, dullard, fat-head, feather-brain, feather-head, numbskull, numskull, sheep's-head, thickhead). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dope

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Dutch700-Modern

doop. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dope

Derivations

Words beginning with "dope": doped, dopehead, dopeheads, doper, dopers, dopes, dopester, dopesters, dopey. (additional references)

Words containing "dope": endopeptidase, endopeptidases, endoperoxide, endoperoxides. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adzope, dape, dapi, dapo, ddp, depe, Depex, depi, Deppa, deppei, dfp, diepe, dipe, dipi, dipie, dipo, dlop, dnp, doae, Doba, dobe, dobi, dofe, d'oie, doje, Dompok, dooe, doop, doope, dopa, dopac, dopee, dopei, dopen, dopet, dopi, dopie, dopp, dopy, doup, doxe, dpo, dpp, dsp, dupa, dupea, dupen, dupf, dupi, dupr, dvp, dwop, fope, odpe, vope. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dope"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dope" (pronounced dō"p)
2-ō" pcope, elope, grope, hope, lope, mope, nope, pope, rope, scope, slope, soap, tope.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dope

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oped.

Words within the letters "d-e-o-p"

-1 letter: doe, ode, ope, ped, pod.

-2 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, op, pe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p"
 

+1 letter: coped, depot, doped, doper, dopes, dopey, ephod, epode, hoped, loped, moped, opted, pedro, poked, poled, pored, posed, poxed, roped, spode, toped.

 

+2 letters: bopped, comped, cooped, copied, copped, couped, deploy, depone, deport, depose, depots, despot, diploe, dipole, dopers, dopier, dorper, eloped, ephods, epodes, fopped, groped, hooped, hopped, hypoed, looped, lopped, louped, mopeds, mopped, opened, opined, pedalo, pedros, period, phoned, plowed, ployed, pocked, podded, podite, poised, polder, polled, pomade, ponced, ponded, ponder, ponged, ponied, poodle, poohed, pooled, pooped, popped, ported, posted, potted, poufed, poured, pouted, powder, probed, prosed, proved, pseudo, redtop, romped, rouped, scoped, sloped, soaped, sopped, souped, speedo, spodes, spoked, spored, stoped, topped, updove.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Abbreviations
14. Acronyms
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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