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FRISKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frisking mean? 

FRISKING (noun)
  The noun FRISKING has 1 sense:

1. the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugsplay

  Familiarity information: FRISKING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRISKING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

frisk; frisking

Context example:

he gave the suspect a quick frisk

Hypernyms ("frisking" is a kind of...):

hunt; hunting; search (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frisking"):

strip search (searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes)

Derivation:

frisk (search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets)


 Context examples 


As I sat quietly meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the closet-window, and skip about from one side to the other: whereat, although I was much alarmed, yet I ventured to look out, but not stirring from my seat; and then I saw this frolicsome animal frisking and leaping up and down, till at last he came to my box, which he seemed to view with great pleasure and curiosity, peeping in at the door and every window.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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