Crossword clues for frisk
frisk
- Check for weapons
- Search, as a suspect
- Search, as a person for contraband
- Search via a pat-down
- Search for guns
- Search for arms
- Pat down, like at an airport
- Pat down, as before a concert
- Pat down while looking for hidden weapons
- Pat down for weapons
- Pat down a perp
- Do an arresting officer's job
- Do a body search
- Body search for concealed weapons or drugs
- An act of feeling
- Search, as for weapons
- Pat-down
- Pat down, as for weapons
- Give a body check
- The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs
- Gambol
- Cut capers
- Cavort
- Search for weapons
- Search a suspect
- Check for arms
- Check for concealed weapons
- Search a person
- Pat down, as a perp
- Check if a body has arms
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
frisk \frisk\ (fr[i^]sk), v. t. To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath; as, the police pulled the car over and frisked the occupants.
Syn: frisk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "to dance, frolic," from Middle English adjective frisk "lively" (mid-15c.), from Middle French frisque "lively, brisk," in Old French "fresh, new; merry, animated" (13c.), which is possibly from a Germanic source (compare Middle Dutch vrisch "fresh," Old High German frisc "lively;" see fresh (adj.1)). Sense of "pat down in a search" first recorded 1781. Related: Frisked; frisking. As a noun, "a frolic, gambol," from 1520s.
Wiktionary
lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. n. A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. v
1 To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. 2 To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing.
WordNet
n. the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs [syn: frisking]
v. play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, romp, run around, lark about]
search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets; "The police frisked everyone at the airport"
Wikipedia
Frisk may refer to:
- Frisk (surname)
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Frisk (novel), by Dennis Cooper
- Frisk (film), based on the novel
- Frisk (confectionery), a product line of breath mint candies
- Frisk, a character in the video game Undertale
- Mr Frisk, a racehorse
- The Frisk, a punk rock band
- Frisking, a search of a person
- Frisk Asker Ishockey - Norwegian ice hockey team; also known as the "Frisk Tigers"
- Frisk Luft, a Norwegian gospel group
- FRISK Software International
Frisk is a 1995 drama film, directed by Todd Verow, based on the 1991 novel of the same name by author Dennis Cooper. It is a first-person narrative about a serial killer. Dennis ( Michael Gunther) describes a series of ritual murders in letters to his sometime lover and best friend, Julian ( Jaie Laplante), and Julian's younger brother Kevin ( Raoul O'Connell). It is banned in the UK due to its content. The cast includes Parker Posey and Alexis Arquette.
Frisk is a 1991 novel by Dennis Cooper. In 1995, the book was made into a film of the same name directed by Todd Verow.
Frisk is a Swedish surname. It is one of many Swedish army names originally given to soldiers to make their names more distinctive. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anders Frisk (born 1963), Swedish former football referee
- Andreas Frisk (born 1984), Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman
- Emil Frisk (1874–1922), American former pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
- Helena Frisk (born 1965), Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party
- Hjalmar Frisk (1900–1984), Swedish linguist and philologist
- Johanna Frisk (born 1986), Swedish football defender
- Niclas Frisk (born 1969), Swedish musician
- Viktor Frisk (born 1995), Swedish fashion blogger and singer
Frisk is the name of a line of breath mint candies produced by Frisk International and distributed worldwide by Perfetti Van Melle. Frisk mints are small, pellet-like mint candies contained in a plastic cartridge.
Usage examples of "frisk".
Hiawatha Felt the loose line jerk and tighten, As he drew it in, it tugged so That the birch canoe stood endwise, Like a birch log in the water, With the squirrel, Adjidaumo, Perched and frisking on the summit.
Midsummer-manifold, each one Voluminous, a labyrinth of life, They keep their greenest musings, and the dim dreams That haunt their leafier privacies, Dissembled, baffling the random gapeseed still With blank full-faces, or the innocent guile Of laughter flickering back from shine to shade, And disappearances of homing birds, And frolicsome freaks Of little boughs that frisk with little boughs.
And in the mire to leave him, till the stars are all burnt out, While, in strange-looking shapes, they frisk about the ground, And, afar in the woods, they raise a dismal shout, Till I shrink into my cell again for terror of the sound!
At the forefront of the crowd, clustered about the base of the scaffold, frisked the Cavaliers and Coquettes of Kokotte.
They all knew that if the police of fleers exercised their right to stop and frisk, they would find drugs, perhaps weapons, in which case the dealers, both with lengthy records, could face long prison terms.
Spattered with size and lime of their lodges they frisk limblessly about him.
Now that the BSO strategy has been publicized, lots of very lonely guys are probably heading for the Fort Lauderdale airport in the hopes of being frisked, and frisked slowly, by Lt.
Officer Crams deftly frisked him, and came up with Rick's service pistol and laser tube.
Of course, the shadow needed incentive to perform the frisk, and earlier Drew had looked for an evident but functional junky in the Combat Zone.
That one had been a little too brusque in frisking the Trandoshan Bossk for any concealed weapons, and had paid the price in quick, bolt-snapping disassembly.
There was a frisk of movement just at the corner of Bob's eye, and a high-pitched squeal as one of the coydogs snatched a bat from the air and gobbled it down, the wings fluttering against its chin.
The frisk is less than professional, but Prince Charming finds what he's looking for, so the grand finale comes when he lifts the third Glock out of my ankle holster and shows it to Jules like it's the prize in the Cracker Jack box.
As if to second that opinion, the thing inside his hand exploded into life, eeling and frisking about.
By early afternoon, after being frisked and probed -- first by an electronic scanner to root out hidden lethal devices, then by a poisonsnooper -- Duncan was finally ushered inside the Castle.
He pulled off his hat, drew out of it a needle and thread (hidden deeply, for they fingered the hats when they frisked you.