to smoke dope
- phrasal verb
- /smoʊk doʊp/
- NSFW
- Have you two been smoking dope?
- drinking or smoke dope
- guys smoking dope
- smoke dope and cigarettes
He keeps breaking in my house, smoking dope, and she's like Dad.
- He keeps breaking in my house, smoking dope, and she's like Dad.
- I saw so many guys just stop working, sit on the ranter and smoke dope all day long.
- Standing on the goddamn corner smoking dope.
- And then a few years later in school, some of the guys, some of my friends in class were starting to smoke dope.
- My God, dude, it sounds like there's just a damn like just like a million kids just, you know, just blowing bubbles and smoking dope and just running out of your face.
- What if that dude was smoking dope all day and you know he got that trick long Mickey's going to come out with them with them Narco sax.
Examples
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You should never smoke dope and drink too.
Fiction book (2001) -
Did you ever smoke dope?
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Why do I let you smoke dope in the house?
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Live in the country, smoke dope.
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When I was 15, my dad caught me smoking dope.
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Were you smoking dope or what?
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Michael had already quit smoking dope.
Fiction book (2002) -
Man, I've smoked dope, you know?
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He's smoking dope.
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When I was in college, I occasionally smoke dope with my friends at the park.
Synonyms
To breathe in smoke from a marijuana cigarette
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to use marijuana by smoking it' is directly and compositionally derived from 'smoke' (to inhale/exhale smoke) plus 'dope' (slang for marijuana); the verb + noun structure transparently indicates the action on the substance. Although 'dope' is informal/slang, if a learner knows that sense then the overall MWE meaning is immediately interpretable.
Etymology
Smoke dope comes from the simple, literal image of lighting a drug called dope and breathing in its smoke. So it means 'to use marijuana by smoking it'.