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doping out

  1. present participle and gerund of dope out

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doping out (uncountable)

  1. The action of figuring out.
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 59:
      ‘I’ll admit,’ he conceded, ‘that right now I can’t think of where any of us will figure. That’ll need a lot of doping out.’