dope out
verb1
Colloquial, Dated To 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:
- "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: