doperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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, 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.

派生語

• doper time

語源 2

From dope (adjective) +‎ -er.

形容詞

doper

1. comparative form of dope: more dope

アナグラム

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