Definition of "dop"

dop¹

/dɒp/

noun
plural dops
1. A diving bird.

dop²

/dɒp/

verb
third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped
1. (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
2. To dip or duck.
  Quotations
  you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight
  1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […]; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969,

dop³

/dɒp/

noun
plural dops
1. (South Africa, slang) . A drink.
2. (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
3. (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
  Quotations
  The Venetian dop this
  1600 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616
4. (diamond-cutting) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
verb
third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped
1. (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
  Quotations
  They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.
  2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170