Usually means: Incompetent or foolish people; slang.
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  1. dopes: Merriam-Webster
  2. dopes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dopes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dopes, dopes: Wordnik
  5. dopes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dopes: Wiktionary
  7. dopes: Dictionary.com
  8. dopes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dopes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dopes: Legal dictionary

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  1. dopes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dopes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. dopes: Medical dictionary

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  1. dopes: Idioms

(Note: See dope as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (DOPE)

noun:  (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
noun:  (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
noun:  (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Any of various recreational substances:
noun:  An opiate, now particularly heroin.
noun:  Marijuana.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
noun:  (uncountable, firearms) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
noun:  (countable, slang) A stupid person.
noun:  (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.
noun:  (Appalachia) A soft drink. Otherwise known as soda or pop.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
verb:  (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.
verb:  (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
adjective:  (slang) Amazing; cool.
noun:  (military) Acronym of data on previous engagement.
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