Dope vs. Weed: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 26, 2023
Dope generally refers to drugs, especially illicit ones, or an idiotic person, while weed specifically denotes marijuana, a commonly used recreational drug.
Key Differences
Dope is a broader term that can refer to various drugs, illicit substances, or even a foolish person. Weed, in contrast, is specifically used to refer to marijuana, a particular type of recreational drug known for its psychoactive effects.
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Dope can have negative connotations, often associated with drug abuse or a derogatory term for a person. Weed, while also pertaining to drugs, is colloquially more accepted and specifically tied to marijuana culture.
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Dope is used in diverse contexts, from sports (performance-enhancing drugs) to street language (generic for drugs). Weed, however, is deeply rooted in cannabis culture and is often used in a more casual, social context.
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The legal implications of dope can vary greatly depending on the specific drug referenced. Weed, specifically marijuana, has seen evolving legal status, with medical and recreational use being legalized in some areas.
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Dope can also mean excellent or cool in slang, showing its versatility. Weed typically doesn't have such varied meanings and is more straightforward in its reference to marijuana.
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Comparison Chart
Connotations
Often negative or derogatory
Commonly associated with cannabis culture
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Cultural Context
Diverse usage in sports, street language
Primarily in social, recreational contexts
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Legal Implications
Varies widely by the type of drug
Evolving, with increasing legalization
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Language Versatility
Can mean cool or great in slang
Typically only refers to marijuana
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Dope and Weed Definitions
Weed
Informally used in cannabis culture.
There's a shop that sells weed accessories downtown.
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Weed
A plant used for medicinal purposes.
She uses weed for her chronic pain.
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Weed
A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one that grows where it is not wanted and often grows or spreads fast or takes the place of desired plants.
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Dope
(Chemistry) An absorbent or adsorbent material used in certain manufacturing processes, such as the nitroglycerin used in making dynamite.
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Dope
A type of lacquer formerly used to protect, waterproof, and tauten the cloth surfaces of airplane wings.
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Dope
Chiefly Southern US A carbonated soft drink containing an extract of the kola nut and other flavorings.
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Weed
To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out
Weed out unqualified applicants.
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Weed
(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
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Dope
(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
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Dope
Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
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Dope
Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
What's the latest dope on the stock market?
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Dope
Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
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Weed
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
He wore a weed on his hat.
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Weed
(archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
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Weed
(Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
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Dope
To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
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Dope
To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
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Weed
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
I weeded my flower bed.
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Weed
(library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
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Dope
Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.
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Dope
Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate.
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Weed
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he worePut off.
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Dope
An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps.
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Weed
An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
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Dope
Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; similar information concerning other sports; by extension, any information not generally known, especially when coming from an inside source; as, the inside dope.
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Weed
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
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Weed
Underbrush; low shrubs.
One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.
A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed.
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Weed
Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.
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Weed
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
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Dope
Carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
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Weed
To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate; - commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise.
Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Weed
To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.
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Dope
Add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties;
The resistors have been doped
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Dope
Give a narcotic to;
The athletes were dope by the coach before the race
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Dope
Illicit drugs, generally.
He was caught carrying dope across the border.
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Dope
A foolish or stupid person.
Don't be such a dope, think before you act.
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Dope
Performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
The athlete was disqualified for doping.
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Weed
Cannabis, used for its psychoactive effects.
They were discussing the different strains of weed.
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Dope
Informal term for any substance causing euphoria.
They were looking for some dope to liven up the party.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
Does dope have positive slang meanings?
Yes, as in something cool or awesome.
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Does dope have a specific drug it refers to?
Not specifically, it's a general term.
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Is calling someone a dope offensive?
It can be, as it implies they're foolish.
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Does dope have legal uses?
Some drugs referred to as dope have medical uses.
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Are there health risks to smoking weed?
There can be, especially with heavy use.
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Can dope be a term of endearment?
Rarely, it's usually derogatory or slang for cool.
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What are the effects of weed?
It can cause relaxation, euphoria, and altered perception.
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