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frisking

[ UK /fɹˈɪskɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs
    he gave the suspect a quick frisk

How To Use frisking In A Sentence

  • Sylvester, known as Rocky to friends in his Harlem neighborhood, was shot in the chest by the plainclothes cop, who was frisking the man's son.
  • A pair of orioles alighted on the frisking branch of a weeping willow.
  • I look down to a meadow in Central Park and see tiny muffled moppets frisking around like children in a Dutch painting.
  • There was a little foal frisking beside its mother.
  • I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens. Walking
  • The premiere of Woolf Phrase, on a bare stage, featured Richard Siegal speaking passages by Virginia Woolf and frisking like a puppy.
  • AN ASS climbed up roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling.
  • One of the soldiers rushed forward and began frisking the older man while his comrades covered him.
  • Policemen are frisking ticket holders at the gates as a security measure in the wake of threats to disrupt the first screenings of the film in the city.
  • The Irish Sea has never been balmy, but the sheltered bay in Port Erin caught the sun and meant many happy summers spent frisking in the sand.
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