Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A search for items hidden on a person preformed by removing that person's clothes. vb. Search for items hidden on a person, by removing clothes.
WordNet
n. searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes
Wikipedia
A strip search is a practice of searching a person for weapons or other contraband suspected of being hidden on their body or inside their clothing, and not found by performing a frisk search, by requiring the person to remove some or all of his or her clothing. The search may involve an official performing an Intimate Person Search and inspecting their personal effects and body cavities (mouth, vagina, anus etc.). A strip search is more intrusive than a frisk and requires legal authority. Regulations covering strip searches vary considerably, and may be mandatory in some situations or discretionary in others.
Strip Search is a drama film made for the HBO network, first aired on April 27, 2004. The film explores the status of individual liberties in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the approval of the USA PATRIOT Act. The film was directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Oz creator Tom Fontana. It stars Glenn Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ken Leung, Bruno Lastra and Dean Winters. The film was first screened at the Monaco Film Premiere with Lumet in person presenting it, in the presence of Fontana.
Strip search is the technique of searching for concealed weaponry or contraband by clothing removal.
Strip search may also refer to:
- Strip Search (film), a 2004 drama film
- Strip Search (TV series), a reality television series
- Strip Search (web series), a reality web series produced by Penny Arcade
- " Stripsearch", a 1998 song by Faith No More
Strip Search is a reality television series, first broadcast in 2001.
The series follows the search for a new troupe of male strippers from audition to the final live show. First broadcast in New Zealand in 2001, versions have been made in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the United States.
The format is virtually identical in each series: men are invited to audition for the show, and during a number of tasks, including a boot camp, the numbers are whittled down until the final troupe perform for a live audience.
The original New Zealand troupe was called "Kiwi Fire". In the same vein, the Australian troupe was called "Aussie Storm", the UK troupe was named "UK Storm", the Canadian group was dubbed "Canadian Thunder" and the American troupe was named "American Storm". The series was masterminded by Billy Cross, an Australian entrepreneur who had success on the Las Vegas Strip with an Australian troupe entitled "Manpower".
Strip Search is an online reality television game show created by Penny Arcade and produced by Bionic Trousers Media, the production arm of sketch comedy website LoadingReadyRun. The show featured twelve artists who competed over thirty-one episodes, with the series' winner receiving a cash prize and integration into the Penny Arcade offices in Seattle for one year. The show was created as a reward-tier for Penny Arcade's 2012 Kickstarter campaign to remove ads from their website.
Usage examples of "strip search".
Upon checking into New Life, Skeet had submitted to a strip search for controlled substances, and none had been found either in his clothing or secreted in any body cavities.
The strip search, for instance, could have been handled with more tact.
He'd arrest me sometimes when he saw ine drunk and take me in and make me go through a strip search, and the bastard took pictures, and he said he mailed some to Beth with him standin' next to me.
If you drive in, the Nazi at the gate wants to strip search you unless you've been cleared by one of the residents inside.
A strip search-walking in a serpentine pattern-was usually used for outdoor scenes because it covered the most ground quickly.
She was walking the strip search-what the Crime Scene people called it-an S-shaped pattern.
The strip search was carried out by a stunning WAAF named Pamela Smith—.
I also suspected, after a few Ehn, that Boabissia's immunity from Gorean Strip Search, in spite of the promise of pleasure to the guards of such a search, might be due to her party, that she was with us.