dope stick

English

Alternative forms

• dope-stick, dopestick

Noun

dope stick (plural dope sticks)

1. (slang) A cigarette.
   • 1912 February, Edwin L. Le Butt, “With the Traveling Men”, in Board of Trade Journal, volume 24, number 10, page 539:

     H.D. Floyd, who sells cigars and things for Charles B. Perkins Co., has got all the cigarette fiends going on a new Egyption dope stick called Pappas.

   • 1917, Sewell Ford, Shorty McCabe Looks 'em Over, page 230:

     "Polly," says I, "I'm chaiarman of the house committee, and if you light up that dope stick in here I'll be court-martialed— maybe lose my job forever."

   • 2018, John Canemaker, Winsor McCay: His Life and Art:

     You know how a cigaret fiend is when he gets up in the morning and can't find a dope stick?

2. (slang, by extension) A pipe or cigar.
   • 1918, Edgar Selwyn, Nearly Married: A Farce in Three Acts, page 44:

     Have we any other landlord? (Taking stem of narghille from RANJE'S mouth) Here! (Lifting narghille from floor) Take that dope-stick out of your mouth, and give your brains a chance.

   • 1986, Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins, page 170:

     Miss Frumperts paused to extract a dope-stick from the Ambassadorial humidor, perfunctorily offering one to her guests.

   • 2003, ‎Timothy Pilgrim, Ro, page 177:

     "Stick that in your dope stick and smoke it," muttered a trooper.

3. (slang, drugs) A marijuana joint or cigar laced with cocaine.
   • 2010, Reverend James R. Harris, Jesus in Columbus, page 6:

     He hands the dope-stick to his partner who drives with one hand on the steering-wheel and the other toking on the blunt.

   • 2012, Alan Dean Foster, The Moment of the Magician:

     She shrugged and set down the dope stick she'd been puffing on.

   • 2014, Mr. Mafia, The Last Birdman, page 40:

     Before he could finish his dope stick, a dope fiend came up asking for a twenty rock of crack.

4. (slang) A penis suffering from priapism as a result of cocaine or heroin.
   • 2006, Hugh T. Wilson, Drugs, Society, and Behavior, page 55:

     […] and have that sort of dope sex where you can fuck for eight hours. They call it a dope stick. You stay up forever but you have a hard time, you know, finishing.

   • 2008, Mike Sager, Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends:

     If you can manage an erection, you get what they call a dope stick: hard for hours with no ability to climax.

   • 2023, Bruce Benderson, User:

     Then it took a long time for him to get a "dope stick," but when his woody was up, it stayed, all the blood was stuck inside, and he could turn her out for hours while their son slept soundly in the living room.

5. A stick or applicator for spreading dope (a viscous liquid or paste used in preparing a surface) on a surface.
   • 1902 April, “Graphite as a Lubricant”, in Threshermen's Review, volume 11, number 4, page 11:

     In case of the piston rods running hot it may be used very effectively by mixing it with the engine lubricating oil in a can and applying it to the rods with a "dope-stick" as a result of which they will run cool.

   • 1967, Army Aviation Maintenance Engineering Manual Shop Practices, page 116:

     Apply dope to any hole pierce by tester, using dope stick in end of tester.

   • 2009, Peter Brandvold, .45-Caliber Widow Maker:

     The lawman chuckled and stirred his dope stick around in the bucket on the ground near his scuffed, grease-smeared boots.