Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) drunk.

1908		Sporting Times 4 Jan. 4/3: Elvin has worked up his delineation of the gentleman with no ‘go’ in him, but who has plenty of it when ‘doped,’ into one of the most comical of his characters.
1914		Day Book (Chicago) 12 Mar. 14: Stop booze-doped men from getting more alcohol.
1936		K. Mackenzie Living Rough 188: A rammy at a dance starts generally with some gang swaggering in armed with bottles and usually half-doped with red biddy.
1954		J.E. Macdonnell Jim Brady 14: Boys threw stones on his tin-roof [...] when he was lying doped on his chaff-bag stretcher.
1963		G. Lambert Inside Daisy Clover (1966) 262: I was full of liquor, gas, burnt coffee, and doped to the gills.
1999		C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 371: A drink-doped, drug-doped juvenile lout.

2. (orig. US, also doped off, ...out, ...up) under the influence of drugs; also in fig. use.

1897		Hopkinson Kentuckian (KY) 27 Dec. 3/4: Newark Police Investigating Story that Boy was ‘Doped’ [...] He had in his possession a box that contained a mixture of cocaine and sugar.
1905		A. Binstead Mop Fair 142: [of a horse] Still too doped too show resentment, he walked round and round as though in a trance.
1917		F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iv: It’s Larry the Bat, and he’s doped to the eyes.
1919		(con. 1914) ‘Leda Burke’ Dope-Darling 74: The tenderness of his smile [...] revealed suddenly just how Roy could care as he did for Claire, seeing all her faults, the horror of her doping habit and doped moods.
1928		M. Bodenheim Georgie May 296: Thank the lawd, she isn’t doped up!
1928		R. Hall Well of Loneliness (1976) 393: And looking with abhorrence upon these men, drink-sodden, doped as were only too many.
1930		R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 22: She wasn’t so doped up or sleepy as she looked.
1938		G. Kersh Night and the City 95: They’re no good for anything unless they’re doped. If they’re not doped one way, it’s another.
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 361: He felt doped the next day.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 72: doped up To be in a stupor from excessive use of drugs.
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 307: doped up [...] To be in a stupor from the excessive use of drugs.
1957		C. Himes Imabelle 100: Twitching all over in a doped rage.
1958		A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 59: You’re doped for nine months.
1963		M. Spillane Return of the Hood 19: You got going against you only one scrawny doped up punk.
1965		C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 99: [as 1957].
1971		J. Mandelkau Buttons 100: He’s been in a pile-up and was doped to the ears with pain killers.
1977		G.F. Newman Villain’s Tale 23: He’s a fucking hippy, ’in he. [...] He’d probably be well doped up.
1988		S. King Tommyknockers (1989) 292: Hilly’s doped off again. His eyes are open, but ...
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 138: What kind of doped-up stupor induced Shelley to make that kind of offer?
1993		A. Rodriguez Spidertown (1994) 109: Used t’ fuck girls so doped up, couldn’t tell a dick from a whip.
1999		J. Ridley Love Is a Racket 90: I’d say about now he’s still doped out on my floor.
2000		G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 60: She went six months later, heavily doped on morphine, at home in their marriage bed.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 223: Sonny and Roy appear indifferent — almost doped-off.
2016		T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] ‘[T]hat little prick is too doped up to play’.

3. addicted to a drug.

1914

N.Y. Times 8 Feb. n.p.: He finally acquired the drug habit himself, as most of these peddlers do eventually, and was so thoroughly ‘doped’ that he squandered his money, and gave away the drug.

4. adulterated with a drug.

1919		‘Sax Rohmer’ Dope 61: He tore the wrapping off, and tasted a strand of the tobacco. ‘Good heavens!’ he whispered. ‘Gray, these things are doped!’.
1926		D. Hammett ‘Assistant Murderer’ in Nightmare Town (2001) 158: She had a pint botle of cognac with her, all doped and ready.
1949		R. Chandler Little Sister 177: He slipped me a doped cigarette.
1953		J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 86: His wine. Poisoned. Doped.
1966		C. Stead Cotters’ England (1980) 210: I would never have credited that there was a lot of yougsters getting boozed up, or smoking doped cigarettes.