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frisking

frisking \frisking\ n. The act or process of searching someone for concealed weapons.

Syn: frisk.

Wiktionary
frisking

n. The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol. vb. (present participle of frisk English)

WordNet
frisking

n. the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs [syn: frisk]

Wikipedia
Frisking

Frisking (also called a patdown or pat down) is a search of a person's outer clothing wherein a person runs his or her hands along the outer garments to detect any concealed weapons.

Usage examples of "frisking".

As if to second that opinion, the thing inside his hand exploded into life, eeling and frisking about.

The guard came over behind Curtis, and began frisking him, running his free hand down one side of his body.

The guard stopped frisking for a second and noticed the camera for the first time.

And the guards who, when Volkovoi wasn't around, carried out the frisking perfunctorily, now flung themselves into their work with savage zeal.

The columns would come in from all sides on the double, trying to be first at the frisking and into the camp.

The breeze extinguished it, too, and she realized that kids hadn’t been responsible for the damage, because the breeze didn’t blow away this time: It fluttered around her, lifting her dress, her hair, twining about her legs, patting and frisking her all over, and in the breeze was a feeling, a knowledge, that turned her bones to splinters of black ice.

Afterward it seemed that they all went out to a meadow and began to play in the sun, but while they were frisking, Mary, his mother, appeared in his dream, saw him with the lions and screamed.

He too was a wild animal and was frisking with the rest, and in his frisking he jumped over the rails and fell onto the ground.

Almost frisking, I trotted toward home, ignoring the mean human animals that guarded their canine master's lots.

Shrewd, yes, and practical as a hammer, but incapable of guile, which comes as naturally to intelligent men as frisking does to lambs.

Cows that can’t fly, tree roots feeling their way through the soil, frisking lambs—that’s Gird talking through me, or my memory of him.