dope out

dope out (third-person singular simple present dopes out, present participle doping out, simple past and past participle doped out)

1. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
   • 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:

     "All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her."

   • 1953, S. Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March:

     "I was fed up with trying to peddle the rubberized paint, and my reckoning was that with a little dough to tide me over I could spend a week or two looking for something else, perhaps dope out a way to get back to college, for I had not altogether given up on that."