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doper

doper

1 8.4
A person who gives illegal drugs to athletes to help them cheat
  • noun
  • /ˈdoʊpər/
  • NSFW
translation icon : drogador
  • I don't know if the other riders are/were dopers, but what I don't want is in five or ten years' time an ex-rider being found out to be a doper in the mid-late 2000s.

Examples

  • That doper we brought in last week--

  • A doper does drugs.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • LA has got to be the best anti-doper sheriff ever, Texas-style.

    Blog text (13)
  • At Fuentes' office (the main blood doper of most top cyclists), Armstrong's samples were listed as LAS and Cowboy.

    Blog text (17)
  • How else could she explain the incredible collection of losers she saw when she drove around town these days, every guy Ricky's age looking just like Ricky, a tattooed doper who smashed bottles on the kids' playground every night and lived for nothing but whatever jolt he could get in the next fifteen minutes?

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I don't know if the other riders are/were dopers, but what I don't want is in five or ten years' time an ex-rider being found out to be a doper in the mid-late 2000s.

    Blog text (11)
  • The coach was banned for being a doper after giving athletes performance-enhancing drugs.

  • In the world of sports, a doper risks their career for the sake of winning unfairly.

  • After a thorough investigation, the team discovered multiple dopers among their ranks during the championship.

Surface Forms

doper singular
dopers plural

Morphology

doper = dope (semi-transparent) = dope + er

The word is clearly formed with the agentive suffix '-er', but the sports-cheating sense is a specialized extension of 'dope' that may not be fully predictable for learners.

Etymology

Doper comes from the word dope, which once meant a 'thick sauce' and later came to mean a 'drug' used to change how people or animals act. So a doper is someone who gives those drugs to help others or to cheat in sports.