Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
body search
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The reporter was subjected to a body search by presidential guards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A bullet-proof glass screen sealed the public gallery and everyone entering the building was subjected to a body search.
▪ If I were a store detective, I'd never have let me out of there without a body search.
Usage examples of "body search".
The police might look a bit too carefully at my papers and administer a body search on general principles.
Among the most effective Arkonide thermo-rayguns there were some small enough to be overlooked with a high degree of probability during a body search.
I don't actually expect, uh, people of your caliber to submit to a body search.
He'd been stripped down to bare skin and had endured the most thorough body search Dinny Ghamal could conduct, a humiliating and painful process involving a fairly sophisticated arsenal of medical equipment, among other things.