doper

See also: döper and døper

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English dope

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English doper

From dope (verb) + -er.

Noun

doper (plural dopers)

1. (derogatory) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
   • 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard

     Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers" especially XC skiing.

   • 2006, Matt Seaton, Tour de farce, Guardian Unlimited:

     ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.

2. (derogatory) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 375:

     That crafty old doper breaks out a "stick" of "tea" and they sit in the sun handing it back and forth, offering the waiter a hit...

   • 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs

     I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong.

   • 2006:, Anthony Cormier, Father: 'We're here to find her body', HeradTribune.com

     Tamara Toy was a blue-eyed daughter of a preacher, growing up good and God-fearing but eventually getting lost along the way, falling in with dopers and felons and a petty crook who stole her heart.

3. (dated) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.

Derived terms

• doper time

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

English dope

Proto-Indo-European *-yōs

Proto-Germanic *-izô

Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō

Proto-Germanic *-ōzô

Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō

Old English -ra

Middle English -ere

English -er

English doper

From dope (adjective) + -er.

Adjective

doper

1. comparative form of dope: more dope

Anagrams

• orped, roped, pro-ED, Pedro, Drope, repod, pored

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdopɛr]

Verb

doper

1. second-person singular imperative of doprat

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dôpere, from Old Dutch dōperi. Equivalent to dopen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.pər/

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• Hyphenation: do‧per
• Rhymes: -oːpər

Noun

doper m (plural dopers, no diminutive)

1. baptiser, one who baptises
2. (historical) Anabaptist [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: anabaptist, doperse, herdoper, wederdoper

Hyponyms

• doopsgezinde
• menist

Derived terms

• dopers

Descendants

• Negerhollands: dooper

See also

• dopingzondaar (whereas Dutch doper is a false friend of English doper as drug user)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English dope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.pe/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Verb

doper

1. to dope; to do doping
2. to boost (one's performance by doping)

Conjugation

Conjugation of doper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	doper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dopant /dɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dopé /dɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dope /dɔp/	dopes /dɔp/	dope /dɔp/	dopons /dɔ.pɔ̃/	dopez /dɔ.pe/	dopent /dɔp/
	imperfect	dopais /dɔ.pɛ/	dopais /dɔ.pɛ/	dopait /dɔ.pɛ/	dopions /dɔ.pjɔ̃/	dopiez /dɔ.pje/	dopaient /dɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	dopai /dɔ.pe/	dopas /dɔ.pa/	dopa /dɔ.pa/	dopâmes /dɔ.pam/	dopâtes /dɔ.pat/	dopèrent /dɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	doperai /dɔ.pʁe/	doperas /dɔ.pʁa/	dopera /dɔ.pʁa/	doperons /dɔ.pʁɔ̃/	doperez /dɔ.pʁe/	doperont /dɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	doperais /dɔ.pʁɛ/	doperais /dɔ.pʁɛ/	doperait /dɔ.pʁɛ/	doperions /dɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	doperiez /dɔ.pə.ʁje/	doperaient /dɔ.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dope /dɔp/	dopes /dɔp/	dope /dɔp/	dopions /dɔ.pjɔ̃/	dopiez /dɔ.pje/	dopent /dɔp/
	imperfect2	dopasse /dɔ.pas/	dopasses /dɔ.pas/	dopât /dɔ.pa/	dopassions /dɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	dopassiez /dɔ.pa.sje/	dopassent /dɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dope /dɔp/	—	dopons /dɔ.pɔ̃/	dopez /dɔ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• dopage

Further reading

• “doper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012