dope time

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Noun

dope time (uncountable)

1. (slang, uncommon) The displacement or distortion of time while under the influence of narcotics.

   Synonym: doper time

   • 1990, Bo Houston, Horse and Other Stories, page 90:

     Dope has a life of its own. There is dope-time, dope-weather, dope-sleep. All one does is wait. The feeling of kicking a dope habit cannot be described.

   • 2001, Screen - Volume 42, page 370:

     Set over the period of one day, 'real time' is relentlessly giving way to dope time. As with Walter Benjamin's stoned perception in the Marseilles café (or stoned perception for any of us), time here charts its own terrains, liberating itself from a subordination to movements, objects or spaces.

   • 2008, Jason Peter, ‎Tony O'Neill, Hero of the Underground: A Memoir:

     time had started to become something of an elastic concept. I was operating on dope time. The only time that registered with me was the endless stretches in between hits on the pipe, or between each line of heroin.

   • 2016, Lucy Bolton, ‎Julie Lobalzo Wright, Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure, page 59:

     Jodi Brooks (2001) notes the importance of time in many 'gangsta' films, including Friday, which, through marijuana consumption of Craig and Smokey, oscillates between 'real time' and 'dope time' ( p. 370).