dopester

dope·ster

(dōp′stər)

One who analyzes and forecasts future events, as in sports or politics.

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dopester

(ˈdəʊpstə)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) slang US and Canadian a person who makes predictions, esp in sport or politics

2. (Gambling, except Cards) slang US and Canadian a person who makes predictions, esp in sport or politics

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dope•ster

(ˈdoʊp stər)

n.

a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, etc.

[1905–10, Amer.]

Translations

dopester

n (esp US inf, also inside dopester) → (bestens informierter) Insider

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John Barleycorn is a wizard dopester. Brain and body, scorched and jangled and poisoned, return to be tuned up by the very poison that caused the damage.)

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"Nobody ever knew what he would do--anywhere or at any time." Many years later, after Bingay had moved to the rival Detroit Free Press as its city editor and gained a measure of renown as the pseudonymous "Iffy the Dopester," he recalled a game against Philadelphia when the young and unpredictable Cobb had reached into his bag of tricks to frustrate Connie Mack's Athletics.

The Georgia Peach hits his stride: determined to "hurl red hell on his way to a score, " Ty Cobb increasingly became more aggressive and imaginative during his first few seasons with the Detroit Tigers, exhibiting a lethal combination of speed, size, muscle, and guile

"Few dopesters gave Oregon a chance against the well-coached Quakers," the 1917 Oregona yearbook pointed out.

How the west won

This "game," by the way, is a competition of such sweeping cultural scope that the players must not only prove their prowess as musicians, but also as fighters, poets, gangsters, gunslingers, dopesters, fashion plates, racing car drivers and studs.

The Tooth of Crime

Start with the Sunday morning barking heads, the high church that certifies each week what the political class is and ought to be talking about, issuing self-fulfilling prophecies for inside dopesters. Consider especially ABC's "This Week," where Cokie Roberts declared, on Jan.