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Frisking

noun

The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs. Synonym: frisk.

Frisk

verb

(past & past part. frisked; pres. part. frisking)

Play boisterously. Synonyms: cavort, disport, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport. "The gamboling lambs in the meadows" , "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

Search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets.

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"Frisking" Quotes from Famous Books

... browsing on the side of the hill, and the little kids frisking by their dams. "These," thought I, "perhaps are the only food and nourishment of these poor friars." I walked to Port Praya, and returned to my floating prison, the slave ship. The officer who was conducting ...

— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat

... rises with a clash. The lion bounds into the arena. He rushes round frisking in his freedom. He sees Androcles. He stops; rises stiffly by straightening his legs; stretches out his nose forward and his tail in a horizontal line behind, like a pointer, and utters an appalling roar. Androcles crouches and hides his face in his hands. The lion gathers himself for a spring, ...

— Androcles and the Lion • George Bernard Shaw

... van Artevelde, that I will deal with the nefarious case in question if I can. I am a little doubtful of the practicability of doing so, and frisking outside the bounds of the law of libel. I have that high opinion of the law of England generally, which one is likely to derive from the impression that it puts all the honest men under the diabolical hoofs of all the scoundrels. It makes ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 • Charles Dickens

... grunt. Miki, meanwhile, was carefully smelling of him from his rump to his muzzle. There was apparently nothing missing, for he gave a delighted little yap at the end, and, in spite of his size and the dignity of increased age, he began frisking about Neewa In a manner emphatically expressive of his ...

— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood

... frowned upon him, and he scowled at them. He realized that his only chance in this desperate venture lay in getting at the elder first, and frisking him away before the women had opportunity to open their mouths. A word from them might check operations. And then, with the capture once made, if he could speed his horse fast enough to allow him an uninterrupted quarter of an hour at the tavern with the minister, he ...

— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day

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