smoke dope

verb

To engage in fanciful reverie or wishful thinking.

“The engineers are smoking dope if they think the company can build this new computer for $100.”

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Meanings

verbsmoke dope (third-person singular simple present smokes dope, present participle smoking dope, simple past and past participle smoked dope)

present singular third person smokes dope · participle present smoking dope · participle past smoked dope · past smoked dope

  1. figurativelyTo engage in fanciful reverie or wishful thinking.

    The engineers are smoking dope if they think the company can build this new computer for $100.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, dope.
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MLA

“smoke dope.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoke%20dope. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smoke dope,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoke%20dope.

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