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> original meaning was thick soup Interesting, I know the word from early aircraft where dope was used on the fabric skin to tighten and strengthen it. The dop

> original meaning was thick soup Interesting, I know the word from early aircraft where dope was used on the fabric skin to tighten and strengthen it. The dope used was a thick gloopy soup.

VLM 9y ago
With fumes that would get you high if you sniffed them, leading to the linguistic change where dope equated to high spaced out idiot.
91bananas 9y ago
Dope is also used in plumbing.