dope out

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dope out (third-person singular simple present dopes out, present participle doping out, simple past and past participle doped out)

  1. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
    • 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
      "All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her."
    • 1953, S. Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March:
      "I was fed up with trying to peddle the rubberized paint, and my reckoning was that with a little dough to tide me over I could spend a week or two looking for something else, perhaps dope out a way to get back to college, for I had not altogether given up on that."

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