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- n the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs
he gave the suspect a quick frisk - v play boisterously
- v search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets
The police frisked everyone at the airport
- All this can, and will, change as the candidates come out, wander around, eat corn dogs and are given the quadrennial intellectual frisk by Iowa voters, who have delivered .
- A police officer takes his position as others frisk suspects in So Paulo, Brazil, May 2006.
- It happens almost every day: a policeman catches sight of a suspicious character, stops him and frisks him.