dope

noun

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

illegal drugs, typically marijuana, heroin, or cocaine

Collocates slang¹⁴, pusher¹², coke⁹, lean⁵, hood⁵, game⁴, crack⁴, sling⁴, po-po⁴, ends⁴, cop³, fiend³, front³, gangsta³, slanger³, clucker³, ecstasy³, hoe², indo², O.G.², on the cut², on the daily², projects², rapper², ride², smoke², tote², triple beam², uncut², weed², d-boy², bank², baby mama², biatch², block², blow², chronic², cook², corner², fiend², four finger ring², fuck with², game², gangbanger², gank², geeked up², H-town², manteca, nathan, one-time, package, paid, perk, piff, player-hate, powder, proper, purp, push, rap, raw, raw, rhyme sayer, rock, rocked up, rope, sack, sawed-off, serve, sess, sherm, shife, show out, sizzurp, -iggity, smoke, spark up, spliff, straight, swag, talk shit, the Bay, 3-wheel, toast, trap, trey deuce, twerk, twisted, twist, U.P.T., weight, wet, whip, wool, X, X.O., old school, swanga, 5-0, 5th Ward, all about, babysit, back in the day, Backwoods, bando, bang, banger, banger, bird, bitch, brah, bread, brick, bug, Calliope, cane, charge it to the game, chief, chop, cluck, come up, crackhead, D, d-game, dead president, decimals, dip, dog food, doja, drop, ese, gangbang, ghetto, ghost, go hard, guap, hard, Hen, hit, ill, in the cut, keep it real, ki, loc'd

Domains Drugs, Marijuana

Etymology pre hip-hop, from the 1890s

Synonyms D

Related concepts hustle, product, push, serve, slang, sling, supply, trap, trapper, weight, work

Timeline

1979 Spoonie Gee "Spoonin' Rap" [Spoonin' Rap]
You better look alive, not like you take dope
1983 Too $hort "Girl" [Don't Stop Rappin']
I come from the city of dope
1984 Roxanne Shanté "Roxanne's Revenge (Street Version)" [Roxanne's Revenge (Radio Promo)]
No coke up your nose, no dope in your vein

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dope

adjective

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

excellent;

attractive;

exciting

Antonyms bootylicious, wack, wick-wack

Categories Accolades

Collocates beat¹⁰, rhyme¹⁰, rhyme sayer⁹, crazy⁴, def³, drop³, wack³, -ass², fresh², hoodie², kick², MC², on wax², player², pound², rap², shit², sleep on², stupid², whip², yo², Rari, 5th Ward, 808, and shit, angel dust, ayo, ballin, bang, beef, bird, bitch, booty, boss, bump, bust, bust a nut, Cadillac, cavi, cavi, check, chill, chill, chips, chronic, clucker, coke, crack pipe, crib, dinero, dog food, dome-piece, dookie, dope-boy, drop, ends, figures, flavor, fly, for real, furl, gangsta lean, ghetto, god, grind, hard white, head, hella, heron, homeboy, hydroponic, hype, hype, I'mma, ill, in full effect, j's, ki, kilo, nahmsayin, lean, long, mail, O.G., Oaktown, off the hook, ounce, pack, package, peep out, perk, phat, Philly, poontang, pump, put it down, Queensbridge, rap, rapper, real, retarded, rhyme, rhyme, rims, rock, rope, serve, sheisty, sherm, shit, shout-out, simp, slang, snatch, sour diesel, stack, straight, swag, thick, tight, tool, trife, trip, triple beam, turn it out, 20-sack, weed, word, word up, ya heard, yadadamean, yola, zooted, hydro, d-boy

Derivatives dopeness

Synonyms cavi, crunk, def, fresh, hot, hype, John Blaze, John Blazed, John Blazin, off the chain, off the heezy, off the hizzle, off the hizzy, off the hook, peng, spank, tight

Timeline

1986-12-08 Salt-n-Pepa "It's All Right" [Hot, Cool & Vicious]
Hurby the producer ain't no joke, he always makes sure the beats are dope
1986 Kool Moe Dee "Go See The Doctor" [Kool Moe Dee]
The poontang was dope, and you know that I rocked her
1987-03-03 Boogie Down Productions "Dope Beat" [Criminal Minded]
You know what they told me to say? I got the dope beat

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