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STRIP-SEARCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strip-search mean?
• STRIP-SEARCH (verb)
The verb STRIP-SEARCH has 1 sense:
1. search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes
Familiarity information: STRIP-SEARCH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
He was strip-searched at the airport
Hypernyms (to "strip-search" is one way to...):
search (subject to a search)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to strip-search the prisoners
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