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n. (context legal English) A search performed by law enforcement on a criminal suspect to insure that the suspect is not hiding anything in a body cavity.
Wikipedia
A body cavity search is either a visual search or a manual internal inspection of body cavities for prohibited materials ( contraband), such as illegal drugs, money, jewelry, or weapons. Body cavities used for concealment include nostrils, ears, mouth, navel, penis ( urethra and foreskin) or vagina, and rectum. It is far more invasive than the standard strip search that is typically performed on individuals taken into custody, either upon police arrest or incarceration at a jail, prison, or psychiatric hospital. Often the procedure is repeated when the person leaves the institution.
Body cavity searches may also be conducted at some international border crossings such as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection when they suspect international travelers of hiding contraband—such as drugs—in their alimentary canal ( digestional tract).
Usage examples of "body cavity search".
I had no intention of going for a ride that would culminate in a body cavity search.
I was afraid the airport gestapo would haul my ass off to a back room and give me a body cavity search.
Sure, you might be subjected to the occasional body cavity search, but that’.
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While it would normally require a body cavity search to find it, Juan might just be into backdoor.
The ba continued with a chill series of directions for Corbeau to go through a humiliating sequence of gyrations which, while not as thorough as a body cavity search, gave at least some assurance that the jump pilot carried nothing there, either.