Frisking

//ˈfɹɪskɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
  2. 2
    the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs wordnet
  3. 3
    The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.

    "They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of frisk form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns."

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