dope

[sagehen]

>At 11:07 AM -0500 3/8/05, sagehen wrote:
>>Jonathan Lighter writes:
>>
>>What could be more passe' sounding than "pot" and "weed"?  Oh, I know !
>>"Grass."
>>
>>JL
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>>I'm wondering if even more passe than "grass"  is "dope" in an entirely
>>different sense:  that of information, the "gen," the "skinny," the "poop."
>>  Weren't racing forms sometimes called "dope sheets"?  Someone might say
>>"I'll send you the dope on how to sign up."
>>It was also a verb.  We used to say "I'm going to dope this out, " & sim.
>>to mean try to understand instructions, or translate or work out a puzzle.
>>A. Murie
>>
>Well, there's The Straight Dope, so how passé can it be?
>
>L
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Sorry.  You've lost me there.  I know what it means in general but not in
capitalized particular!
AM