The Clue
No brainiac (4 letter answer)
The Answer
DOPE
Tags
Notes
The answer DOPE is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.
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Definition
DOPE as a noun:
1. (pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane) = street names for marijuana
2. (dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead) = an ignorant or foolish person
3. (cola, dope) = carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
4. (dope, poop, the skinny, low-down) = slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?"
DOPE as a verb:
1. take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
2. add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; "The resistors have been doped"
3. (dope, dope up) = give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race"