As a long time reader of Michael Quinnon’s World Wide Words, I was interested to see that this week he devoted most of his newsletter to the origin of the word ‘dope’.
Towards the end, he gets round to expansions and writes this:
I expected to find that Cecil had already covered the origin of the name, but failed to find it. If you want to read more go here: World Wide Words: Newsletter: 06 Aug 2016