dope out

present singular third person dopes out · participle present doping out · participle past doped out · past doped out

1. colloquialdatedtransitiveTo figure out, to find out, find, decipher

   "All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her."

   1906, O. Henry, The Green Door

   1 more example

   "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."

   1953, S. Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March