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Dope?

sillav nitramsillav nitram
in Not Sports Related
Not sure if this is an Americanism or should be put in the, "keeping up with your kids lingo?" thread.

But I've come across it quite a lot and in particular on instagram where I post my images and the word "Dope" is sometimes left as a comment, thankfully not just on mine.

Apart from meaning Marijuana or idiot.

Is there another meaning?

Thanks for any info.
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    UboatUboat
    'Good'
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    sillav nitramsillav nitram
    edited September 2017
    Uboat said:

    'Good'

    I thought it might be a trumpism?

    Does it?

    so wot spotty faced kid wearing a baseball cap back to front came up with that and amazing that it's caught on?
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    BaldybonceBaldybonce
    Information
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    Wheresmeticket?Wheresmeticket?
    edited September 2017
    "Dope" can mean "true" or "authentic", and has now been simplified to just mean "good". It has also been used to mean cannabis, heroin or cocaine depending on your peer group. It used also to be a noun or adjective meaning stupid (possibly linked to its use in relation to drugs). Oh, I'm sorry here's a train I haven't got yet.
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    limeygentlimeygent
    edited September 2017
    Used to be a glue company called "O'My", called one of their glues "O'My Glossy Dope". Not sure if they're still around.
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    SDAddickSDAddick
    edited September 2017
    This is an Americanism from like, when I was a kid. So uh, well done being caught up on the slang from 20 years ago ;)
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    Wheresmeticket?Wheresmeticket?
    SDAddick said:

    This is an Americanism from like, when I was a kid. So uh, well done being caught up on the slang from 20 years ago ;)

    Woh! Chill your boots man.
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    limeygentlimeygent
    I think, way back when, it was used to describe the coating used on the fabric of old aeroplanes.
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    sillav nitramsillav nitram
    SDAddick said:

    This is an Americanism from like, when I was a kid. So uh, well done being caught up on the slang from 20 years ago ;)

    If you were a kid in the late 90's spare a thought for me.

    I was a kid in the 60's, so it's hardly surprising it's taken me this long to catch up!
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    SoundAsa£SoundAsa£
    Information please?
    As in......"give me the dope on that."
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    SDAddickSDAddick
    sillav nitram said:

    SDAddick said:

    This is an Americanism from like, when I was a kid. So uh, well done being caught up on the slang from 20 years ago ;)

    If you were a kid in the late 90's spare a thought for me.

    I was a kid in the 60's, so it's hardly surprising it's taken me this long to catch up!
    Ha yeah fair enough. I hope you didn't take my post seriously, was just having a bit of fun, not criticizing you for a lack of knowledge of LA slang amongst the yoot in 1997.

    I took that "know the language your kids uae" test and had to guess them all.
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    sillav nitramsillav nitram
    SDAddick said:

    sillav nitram said:

    SDAddick said:

    This is an Americanism from like, when I was a kid. So uh, well done being caught up on the slang from 20 years ago ;)

    If you were a kid in the late 90's spare a thought for me.

    I was a kid in the 60's, so it's hardly surprising it's taken me this long to catch up!
    Ha yeah fair enough. I hope you didn't take my post seriously, was just having a bit of fun, not criticizing you for a lack of knowledge of LA slang amongst the yoot in 1997.

    I took that "know the language your kids uae" test and had to guess them all.
    No, I didn't.
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    AFKABartramAFKABartram
    Last night was dope

    Let's talk about sex baaaaby
    Let's talk about you and me

    (1990)
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    SexyDaveSexyDave
    When describing something as dope I've always known it to mean 'sweet', or as Uboat says, good.
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    SantaClausSantaClaus
    Dope's sick innit.
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    sillav nitramsillav nitram
    SDAddick said:

    sillav nitram said:

    SDAddick said:

    This is an Americanism from like, when I was a kid. So uh, well done being caught up on the slang from 20 years ago ;)

    If you were a kid in the late 90's spare a thought for me.

    I was a kid in the 60's, so it's hardly surprising it's taken me this long to catch up!
    Ha yeah fair enough. I hope you didn't take my post seriously, was just having a bit of fun, not criticizing you for a lack of knowledge of LA slang amongst the yoot in 1997.

    I took that "know the language your kids uae" test and had to guess them all.
    Just wanted to add, I know where you live and I'm on my way over!
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    SDAddickSDAddick
    Oh, it's also slang for drugs, or it was. Usually weed, but I've seen it used for all drugs.

    If we're gonna play "translate the '90s slang game" then I'm gonna look like the coolest kid on CL.
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    Addick in SW16Addick in SW16
    I remember my American cousins telling me that dope was a word an old man on their street used and that was literally twenty years ago
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    BaldybonceBaldybonce
    edited September 2017
    Addick in SW16 said:

    I remember my American cousins telling me that dope was a word an old man on their street used and that was literally twenty years ago

    your cousins lived on the same street as SD!. What a coincidence.
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    SDAddickSDAddick
    Baldybonce said:

    Addick in SW16 said:

    I remember my American cousins telling me that dope was a word an old man on their street used and that was literally twenty years ago

    your cousins lived on the same street as SD!. What a coincidence.
    Given that I'm currently the oldest 31 year old alive, that "old man" might just have been me at 11 because I was in bed by 11 and told stories that started with "when I was your age" and talked shit about technology (AIM) ruining the youth of today.
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    RobRob
    In American slang 'Dope' means more than good I would say. More like 'really good'.
    Maybe I'm splitting hairs.
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    SDAddickSDAddick
    Rob said:

    In American slang 'Dope' means more than good I would say. More like 'really good'.
    Maybe I'm splitting hairs.

    Yeah I'd go with that. "Awesome" or something like that.
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    North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    SDAddick said:

    Oh, it's also slang for drugs, or it was. Usually weed, but I've seen it used for all drugs.

    If we're gonna play "translate the '90s slang game" then I'm gonna look like the coolest kid on CL.

    OK, what is meant by "Chinny reck-on"?
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    cafcdave123cafcdave123
    sillav nitram said:

    Not sure if this is an Americanism or should be put in the, "keeping up with your kids lingo?" thread.

    But I've come across it quite a lot and in particular on instagram where I post my images and the word "Dope" is sometimes left as a comment, thankfully not just on mine.

    Apart from meaning Marijuana or idiot.

    Is there another meaning?

    Thanks for any info.

    It means the opposite of "that shits whack"
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    LincsaddickLincsaddick
    dope = bob 'ope ((:>)
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    cafcfancafcfan
    newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/semtex-accused-thought-explosive-was-a-whack-of-dope-1-7787155

    Which is odd because I thought dope was an ingredient for making explosives!
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    JintsJints
    It was originally a hip hop term from the early 80s onwards.
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    Friend Or DefoeFriend Or Defoe
    The big question is is dope something that is green or something that is brown?
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