dop

plural dops

1. A diving bird.

present singular third person dops · participle present dopping · participle past dopped · past dopped

1. South AfricaslangTo fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)

   I dopped my exams.

2. To dip or duck.

   Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do.

   1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14

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   you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight

   1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN

plural dops · alternative dopp

1. South AfricaslangA drink.

   Let's go to the bar for a dop.

2. South AfricaslangAn imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.

   Give me a dop of brandy.

3. obsoleteA dip; a low courtesy.

   The Venetian dop this

   1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC

4. diamond-cuttingA little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

   Synonyms: doop

present singular third person dops · participle present dopping · participle past dopped · past dopped · alternative dopp

1. South AfricaslangTo drink alcohol.

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

   2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170

plural DOPs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of date of production.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of director of photography.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of dilution of precision (in GPS).
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableoccupational healthchemistryInitialism of dioctyl phthalate.
5. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of deadline of payment.

   Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash

   2023 February 28, Teudoongie Shop (@TeudoongieShop), Twitter

6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputer graphicsInitialism of discrete oriented polytope.