Definition of "dop" []

• . A drink. (noun)
• An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash. (noun)
• A dip; a low courtesy. (noun)
• A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut. (noun)
• To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade) (verb)

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• "The polisher fixes the cut stone firmly in a metallic holder called a dop, which is cleverly designed to hold the stone with much of one side of it exposed."
• "He undertook to ensure that the government moved faster in the next five years on issues such as housing, education and the removal of the "dop" - system whereby farmworkers were paid in alcohol instead of wages."
• "In the so-called dop system, laborers were paid partly with a daily quotient of cheap wine."