transitive verb
1. slang : to figure out from one's interpretation of what information is available
lists of football games around the country which he had been doping out — T.H.White b.1915
a. : to devise by system
then some practical guy came along later and doped out how it could be sold — Theodore Morrison
b. : to puzzle out, solve, or discover by mental effort or ingenuity
the specifications are there … could you dope them out and build the boat without blueprints — K.M.Dodson
c. : to reason or infer by guess
anyone with half an eye could dope out from this that there's a big deal, that it's a back-door deal — Claud Cockburn
d. : to discern the identity and intentions of
I could see him stare as he tried to dope us out — Saul Bellow
2. slang : to plan out or arrange in advance
we are to dope out a full year's schedule of major and minor sports