Dictionary: DOP – DOS

• DOP
n. 1. 1616 obs. – a curtsy, a dip
n. 2. 1700 obs. rare – the pupa-case or cocoon of an insect
vb. 1. c1380 obs. – to descend or sink suddenly into water or the like; to dive
vb. 2. c1557 obs. – to duck or suddenly drop the head or body; to curtsy
 
• DOPE
adj. 1981 teen & high school sl. – great, superb, excellent; a common rap term
n. 1. 1851 sl. – a stupid or foolish person, a simpleton
n. 2. 1889 sl. – a narcotic drug
n. 3. 1899 US sl. – a drug taker or addict
n. 4. 1899 sl., orig. horse-racing usage – information, data, news
n. 5. 1915 US sl. – Coca-Cola or some other carbonated drink
n. 6. 1915 – something designed to deceive or bamboozle; a fraudulent design or action; a piece of deception or humbug; also, a person employed in a fraudulent transaction
vb. 1. 1875 sl. – to give a drug to; to drug a racing animal to affect its performance
vb. 2. 1898 sl. – to treat with an adulterant, etc.; to ‘doctor’
vb. 3. 1909 sl. – to take drugs; to be addicted to drugs
 
• DOPE ADDICT
n. 1930 sl. – a drug addict
 
• DOPE-BOOK
n. 1909 US sl. – a book of information on any subject
 
• DOPED-OUT
adj. 20C sl. – under the influence of dope, drugged
 
• DOPED-UP
adj. 20C sl. – under the influence of dope, drugged
 
• DOPE FIEND
n. 1890 sl., orig. US – a drug addict
 
• DOPE HEAD
n. 1. 1901 sl., orig. US – (as ‘dopehead’) a drug addict
n. 2. World War II Amer. sl. – one given to spreading false information and rumours
n. 3. World War II Amer. sl. – one fond of Coca-Cola
 
• DOPENIK
n. M20 US sl. – a drug addict
 
• DOPE OFF
vb. World War II Amer. sl. – to act in a stupid manner
 
• DOPE OUT
vb. 1906 sl. – to deduce or infer from available information
 
• DOPER
n. 1. 1910 sl. – a drug addict
n. 2. 1910 sl. – a pusher
 
• DOPE-SHEET
n. 1903 US sl. – a sheet of paper bearing information or instructions, esp. written or printed information about racehorses
 
• DOPESTER
n. 1. 1907 sl., orig. US – someone who collects information on, and forecasts the result of, sporting events, elections, etc.
n. 2. 1938 sl. – someone who uses or is addicted to drugs 
 
• DOPESTICK
n. 1918 sl. – a cigarette; a marijuana cigarette 
 
• DOPEY
adj. 1. 1895 Amer. sl. – sluggish or befuddled from or as from the use of narcotics or alcohol
adj. 2. 1895 Amer. sl. – stupid; inane
adj. 3. 1932 sl., orig. US – sleepy
adj. 4. 20C teen & high school sl. – hip, cool 
n. 1. 18C Brit. sl. – a beggar’s woman 
n. 2. 18C Brit. sl. – the anus 
 
• DOPEY-DOG
n. Bk2004 Amer. World War I usage – a guardhouse 
 
• DOPIUM
n. E20 US sl. – opium 
 
• DO POO-POO(S)
vb. 1976 sl., chiefly a children’s term – to defecate
 
• DOPPELGANGER
n. 1851 – the apparition of a living person; a double, a wraith
 
• DOPPER
n. 1. 1631 – a Baptist or Anabaptist
n. 2. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – a clumsy person
 
• DOPPIE
n. 1948 S. Afr. – a grape-skin
 
• DOPT
vb. a1607 obs. – to adopt
 
• DOPY
adj. 1. 1903 sl., orig. US – foolish, slow-witted, unintelligent, stupid 
adj. 2. 1932 sl., orig. US – sleepy 
 
• DOR
n. 1. a700 obs. – a bumblebee, a drone bee, a hornet
n. 2. 1551 obs. – a lazy idler
n. 3. 1552 obs. – scoff, mockery
n. 4. 1616 obs. rare – a fool
vb. 1. 1570 obs. – to make game of, to make a fool of, to mock, to befool, to confound
vb. 2. 1601 obs. – to make dim or dull in colour; to deaden
 
• DORADO
n. 1643 obs. – a rich man
 
• DO-RAG
n. 1960 – a kerchief or scarf worn on the head to protect the hairdo, esp. after kinky hair has been straightened
 
• DORBEL
n. 1. 1592 obs. – anything that has an unseemly appearance
n. 2. 1593 obs. – a scholastical pedant; a dull-witted person; a dolt
 
• DORBELISH
adj. 1847 obs. – stupid, awkward, very clumsy
 
• DORBELLICAL
adj. 1592 nonce word obs. – stupid, very awkward or clumsy
 
• DORDY!
int. 2000 UK sl. – used for registering surprise 
 
• DO-RE-MI
n. 1926 US sl. – money 
 
• DORF
n. 1967 US sl. – a social outcast 
 
• DORG
n. 1. 1737 Eng. dial. – a day’s work; the amount of work done in a day 
n. 2. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a dog 
 
• DOR-HEAD
n . 1577 obs. – a stupid or blundering fellow
 
• DORIAN LOVE
n. 1987 US sl. – homosexual love and/or sex
 
• DO-RIGHT
adj. 1936 US sl. – righteous, diligent 
n. 1986 US sl. – a favour
 
• DO-RIGHT BOY
n. 1970 US sl. – a police officer
 
• DO-RIGHTER
n. 1970 US sl. – a person who does not use drugs 
 
• DO RIPS
vb. 1997 US sl. – to smoke marijuana 
 
• DORIS
n. 1. 1965 Barbados sl. – a police van 
n. 2. 1992 UK rhyming sl. (Doris Day) – a way
n. 3. 2001 UK sl. – a woman
 
• DORIS DAY
n. 1. 1992 UK rhyming sl. – a way 
n. 2. 1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘gay’ – homosexuality 
 
• DORK
n. 1. 1961 US sl. – the penis 
n. 2. 1967 sl. – a stupid or ridiculous person; a jerk, a nerd; a socially inept, unfashionable, harmless person
n. 3. 1984 sl. – a person obsessively devoted to an interest or pursuit considered unfashionable, highly technical, or boring
vb. 1. 1969 US sl. – to botch, to mess something up
vb. 2. 1970 US sl. – to have sexual intercourse
vb. 3. 1990 US sl. – to act in a socially inept fashion
 
• DORK AROUND
vb. 1982 US sl. – to spend time frivolously or  unproductively; to mess around, to waste time
 
• DORKBRAIN
n. 1974 US sl. – an inept outcast 
 
• DORKBREATH
n. 1974 US sl. – a term of abuse 
 
• DORKED-OUT
adj. 1974 sl., chiefly US – unfashionable, nerdy
 
• DORK-FACTOR
n. 1970s US students’ sl. – the number of fools 
 
• DORK OUT
1990 US sl. – to behave foolishly, in a clumsy and awkward manner
 
• DORKUS
n. 1979 US sl. – a fool; a clumsy or inept person
 
• DORKY
adj. 1970 sl. – stupid, inept, or unfashionable; without social skills, overly studious
 
• DORM
n. 1. 1512 obs. rare – sleep, slumber, a doze
n. 2. 1900 colloq. – a dormitory, a place to sleep
vb. 19C – to doze
 
• DORMER
n. 1. 1605 obs. – a sleeping chamber, a dormitory
n. 2. c1640 obs. – a resting place; a repository
 
• DORMIE
n. 1966 US sl. – a student living in a dormitory; a person with whom you share a dormitory room
 
• DORMIENT
adj. 1643 – sleeping, dormant
 
• DORMIOUS
adj. 1656 – sleepy → obs.
 
• DORMITARY
adj. 1609 obs. – causing sleep
n. 1547 obs. – a sleep-producing medicine, a narcotic
 
• DORMITATION
n. 1. 1564 obs. – sleeping, falling asleep, drowsiness
n. 2. 1543 obs. – numbness; loss of sensibility
 
• DORMITION
n. 1483 – a sleeping. a falling asleep
 
• DORMITIVE
adj. 1694 obs. rare – sleeping through the winter
 
• DORMITORY
adj. 1631 obs. – tending to or causing sleep; sleepy, drowsy
n. 1. 1634 obs. – a resting-place for the dead; a cemetery, a vault, a grave
n. 2. 1656 obs. rare – a song sung to lull to sleep; a lullaby
 
• DORMOUSE
n. a1568 – a sleepy or dozing person
 
• DORM RAT
n. 1963 US sl. – a person living in a dormitory
 
• DORM ROT
n. 1970 US sl. – a bruise on the skin caused by a partner’s mouth during foreplay; a suction kiss
 
• DORNICK
n. 1840 Amer. dial. – a pebble, a stone, a small boulder
 
• DO-ROOM
n. 1974 US sl. – a room where drugs are used, especially injected
 
• DOROTHY
n. 1992 UK rhyming sl. from the name of Welsh torch-singer Dorothy Squires – a tire (always used in reduced form)
 
• DOROTHY DIX
n. 1. 1941 Aust. political usage – a parliamentary question which the respondent knows will be asked, intended to prompt a prepared reply
n. 2. 1979 Aust. sl. – in cricket: a six
 
• DOROTHY DIXER
n. 1970 Aust. political usage  – a pre-arranged question put to a Minister in parliament for which he or she has a prepared answer
 
• DO ROUND
vb. 1905 Amer. dial. – to busy oneself; to bustle about; to mingle with others, to go from place to place
 
• DORP
n. 1. 1582 – a village
n. 2. 1835 S. Afr. – a small town
 
• DORR
n. 1. a700 obs. – a bumblebee, a drone bee, a hornet
n. 2. 1551 obs. – a lazy idler
 
• DORSE
n. a1641 obs. – the back of a book or writing
vb. 1825 boxing sl. obs. – to throw on the back
 
• DORSLE
vb. 1895 Eng. dial. – to stun, to stupefy, to confuse, to daze
 
• DORT
vb. 1825 – to become pettish, to sulk → Sc. 
 
• DORTED
adj. 1825 – sulky, ill-humoured → Sc. 
 
• DORTER
n. 1. 1290 – a sleeping-room, a bed-chamber, a dormitory, esp. that of a monastery → obs. 
n. 2. 1961 – a daughter → Amer. dial. 
 
• DORTHER
n. 1900 – a daughter → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
• DORTISHIP
n. 1728 – ill-humour, haughtiness, sauciness → Sc. 
 
• DORTORY • DORTRY
n. 1636 – a sleeping-room, a bed-chamber, a dormitory, esp. that of a monastery → obs.
 
• DORTOUR
n. 1290 – a sleeping-room, a bed-chamber, a dormitory, esp. that of a monastery → obs.
 
• DORTOURER
n. 1430 – one who has charge of a dormitory → obs.
 
• DORTS
n. 1632 – sulkiness, ill-humour; sulks → Sc. 
 
• DORTSPEAK
n. 1990s – an affectedly quasi-British accent, adopted by the middle-class in and around Dublin → Irish sl. 
 
• DORTY
adj. 1605 – spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous → Sc. 
 
• DORTY-POUCH
n. 1864 – a saucy person → Sc. 
 
• DORY
adj. 1398 – of a golden colour; bright yellow → obs. 
 
• DORYPHORE
n. 1949 – a person who draws attention to the minor errors made by others, esp. in a pestering manner; one who complains about minor mistakes
 
• DORY PLUG
n. 1995 – a member of the Royal Canadian Navy → Can. sl. 
 
• DOSE
n. 1. 1847 – an unpleasant experience
n. 2. 1914 – a case of gonorrhea or syphilis → sl. 
n. 3. 1942 – chastisement → US sl. (Bk.)
n. 4. 1967 – a single experience with LSD → US sl. 
n. 5. 1969 – a dolt → US sl. 
n. 6. 1982 – a curse, a spell → Bahamas sl. 
n. 7. 1996 – a four-month prison sentence → UK sl. 
vb. 1. 1918 – to infect another with a sexually transmitted disease → US sl. 
vb. 2. 1957 – to introduce a drug, esp. LSD, into a host substance; to give a drug to someone without their knowledge → US sl. 
vb. 3. 1971 – to ingest; to take a dose of → US sl. 
vb. 4. 1997 – to share drugs → US sl. 
 
• DOSED UP
adj. 1969 – infected with a sexually transmitted disease → US sl. 
 
• A DOSE OF STRAP-OIL
n. 1904 – a thrashing → sl. (Bk.)
 
• DOSE OF THE SHITS
n. 1. 1973 – a bad mood → Aust. sl. 
n. 2. 1979 – a case of diarrhoea → Aust. sl. 
 
• DOSER
n. 1888 – one who gives a dose; used contemptuously for a physician
 
• DOSES
n. 2002 – LSD → Can. sl. 
 
• DOSE UP
vb. 1950 – to pass a sexually transmitted infection to someone else → US sl. 
 
• DOSH
n. 1854 – money → sl., orig. US
 
• DO SOMEONE MISCHIEF
vb. 1385 – to cause trouble or harm to 
 
• DO SOMEONE OUT OF SOMETHING
vb. 1825 – to deprive someone of something by fraud or unfair means → sl.
 
• DO SOMEONE OVER
vb. 1866 – to hit repeatedly; to assault by hitting → sl.
 
• DO SOMEONE PROUD
vb. M19 – to entertain, to provide food or other material comforts to someone’s satisfaction → sl.
 
• DO SOMETHING STANDING ON ONE’S HEAD
vb. 1890 – to do something with ease
 
• DOSS
n. 1. 1744 – a bed in cheap lodgings → sl.
n. 2. 1858 – sleep → sl.
n. 3. 1942 – a bedroom → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 4. 1985 – an activity or experience regarded as easy, fun, or requiring little effort; an enjoyably undemanding enterprise, esp. one providing opportunities for idling; a soft option → Brit. colloq. 
vb. 1. 1583 – to push with the horns as a bull → obs. 
vb. 2. 1737 – to throw down with force; to toss down → Sc. 
vb. 3. 1785 – to sleep, esp. to sleep at a common lodging-house → sl.
vb. 4. 1789 – to go to bed → Brit. sl.
vb. 5. 1937 – to fool about, to mess around; to pass time idly or aimlessly; to be lazy, to loaf → Brit. colloq. 
 
► DOSSER n. 1. one who frequents or sleeps at a common lodging-house; a vagrant, a tramp, a homeless person → 1865 UK sl.
n. 2. the head of a household, he who provides the ‘doss’ (lodging, a bed) → 1937 UK sl.
n. 3. a person who exists without working; a layabout → 2001 sl.
 
• DOSSER-HEAD
n. 1612 – a foolish person → obs. 
 
• DOSSER-HEADED
adj. 1655 – foolish → obs. 
 
• DOSSERS
n. 1567 – the horns of an animal → obs. 
 
• DOSS-HOUSE
n. 1889 – a cheap lodging-house, esp. for vagrants → sl., orig. & chiefly Brit.
 
• DOSSIL
n. 1297 – a plug for a barrel;  a spigot → obs. 
 
• DOSS-MAN
n. 1825 – the keeper of a ‘doss-house’ → sl. 
 
• DOSSY
adj. 1889 – elegant, stylish, smart, spiffy 
n. 1888 – a slovenly woman, a slattern → Eng. dial.