Frisk

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  • intransitive verb. To search (a person) for something concealed, especially a weapon, by passing the hands quickly over clothes or through pockets.
  • intransitive verb. To move about briskly and playfully; frolic.
  • noun. The act of frisking someone.
  • noun. An energetic, playful movement; a gambol.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Lively; brisk; frisky.
  • noun. A frolic; a gambol; a dance; a merry-making.
  • To leap, skip, prance, or gambol, as in frolic.
  • To freshen, as the wind.
  • To squander idly; dissipate in sport: with away.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath.
  • intransitive verb. To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
  • adjective. A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
  • adjective. Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
  • noun. A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
  • verb. to frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap
  • verb. to search somebody by feeling their clothes
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs
  • verb. search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets
  • verb. play boisterously
  • Word Usage
    "To justify a patdown of the driver or a passenger during a traffic stop, however, just as in the case of a pedestrian reasonably suspected of criminal activity, the police must harbor reasonable suspicion that the person subjected to the frisk is armed and dangerous."
    Form
    frisked  frisking  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play  search  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Fisk  bisque  brisk  disc  disk  
    Same Context
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    verb-form
    frisked  frisking  frisks