dop

From Dutch dop, Dutch doppen.

dop (plural dops)

1. (South Africa, slang). A drink.

   Let's go to the bar for a dop.

2. (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.

   Give me a dop of brandy.

3. (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.

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4. A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
5. A diving bird.

• (cup in which diamond is cut): doop

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)

   I dopped my exams.

2. (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
   • 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)

     They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.

3. To dip or duck.

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• dop kit

• -pod, DPO, ODP, PDO, PO'd, POD, po'd, pod, pod-

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• Rhymes: -ɔp

dop m (plural doppen, diminutive dopje n)

1. a hemispherical container such as a thimble
2. a shell (of an egg or a nut for example)

   Beter een half ei dan een hele dop. - Better half an egg than a whole (empty) shell.

3. a bottle cap
4. eyelid

   Kijk uit je doppen! - Look out!

dop

1. first-person singular present indicative of doppen
2. imperative of doppen

Borrowed from Italian dopo.

• IPA^(key): /dop/, /dɔp/

dop

1. behind, after (in place), back of

   L'automobilo esas dop la parieto.

   The car is behind the wall.

• avan

• dopa (“back, rear, hind”)
• dope (“astern, at the back, aback”)
• dopo (“back”)
• dopajo (“rear, back (object or part behind)”)
• dedop (“from behind”)
• dop-

From Transylvanian Saxon Dop (“stopper”).

dop n (plural dopuri)

1. cork (of a bottle), stopper

• astupuș (popular)

• îndopa

Related to doppa (to dip)

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dop n

1. a baptism, a christening ceremony

• dop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)