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单词 frisk
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Definition of frisk in English:

frisk

verb frɪskfrɪsk
  • 1with object (of a police officer or other official) pass the hands over (someone) in a search for hidden weapons, drugs, or other items.

    he raised his arms to permit the officer to frisk him
    I was frisked and released without charge
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Guests were frisked; their luggage was searched.
    • As part of a countywide review, the court on Burneside Road, Kendal, now has an appointed security officer armed with a hand-held metal detector to frisk people entering the building.
    • Most recently, he was frisked by officers looking for car thieves.
    • Officers frisked Barnes and made him stand with them near the police cars.
    • It was by the same people who had frisked me the previous four times.
    • He said after the shooting, police and federal agents who came aboard the plane thoroughly frisked passengers and then ordered them off the plane, ‘all of us with our hands on our heads’.
    • He holstered the pistol and frisked her for weapons.
    • But I listened very carefully and don't remember that he actually said that those officers could then stop and frisk the individuals under suspicion.
    • The 10th grader told Mr. Gober that he had been grabbed by a police officer, pushed against a wall, and frisked.
    • One of them relieved Phelps of his gun and gun belt, while the other frisked him for hidden weapons or other ‘dangerous’ articles.
    • Geoffrey froze as the third policeman came over and roughly frisked him.
    • He held me tighter as his colleague proceeded to frisk me.
    • 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.
    • According to zoo staff, they are unable to fully prevent the entry of plastic as they have no powers to frisk people entering the zoo.
    • A machine gunner atop a Humvee kept his weapon trained on the truck and watched through binoculars as it came to a halt and troops frisked the driver and a companion.
    • Schoolchildren could be frisked for weapons against their will as teachers are recruited into the crackdown on youth knife culture.
    • The federal police will also frisk pilgrims, search their belongings and maintain order within their camps.
    • He frisked me, then twisted my arms, and placed handcuffs on me.
    • While the above examples have affected a few citizens, there is a much larger policy issue also at stake: the police have been authorized to stop and frisk any citizen whom they consider suspicious.
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    search, body-search, check, inspect, examine
    informal give someone the once-over
    North American informal shake down
  • 2no object, with adverbial of direction Skip or leap playfully; frolic.

    spaniels frisked around me
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July.
    • 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.
    • There was a man called Mr. Montaro Mori who was a student of the Tokyo Imperial University, which later became Tokyo University, and he and I and some others used to frisk around together.
    • The premiere of Woolf Phrase, on a bare stage, featured Richard Siegal speaking passages by Virginia Woolf and frisking like a puppy.
    • I look down to a meadow in Central Park and see tiny muffled moppets frisking around like children in a Dutch painting.
    • For four years John Phelan allowed the beautiful freckled-faced colt to frisk and gambol to his hearts content in long meadow.
    • ‘She was caught in the bush, sir,’ he explained, glancing down at the dog that was still frisking about.
    • Unlike horses, these unicorns would not move until after they had been fed and groomed, and then they would take themselves out to the giant corrals to frisk among themselves.
    • You don't get to see them frisk like that around the Suffolk sheds.
    • Today, after cardiac surgery, the two children seem fine, happy and frisk about.
    • She says she can picture Charlie right now frisking about some green field of Heaven, wearing his loop of flowers.
    • River otters frisked in appreciation of winter's retreat.
    • He watches them flirt, frolic, frisk and fondle.
    • Oh alright, I'll go and frisk, I suppose, if you insist.
    • There was a little foal frisking beside its mother.
    Synonyms
    frolic, gambol, cavort, caper, cut capers, sport, scamper, skip, dance, romp, trip, prance, leap, spring, hop, jump, bounce, bob
    rare curvet, rollick, capriole
    1. 2.1with object (of an animal) move or wave (its tail or legs) playfully.
      a horse was frisking his back legs like a colt
noun frɪskfrɪsk
  • 1in singular An act of frisking someone.

    a frisk search
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But such detection is allowed and is arguably a much lesser intrusion of privacy than, say, a frisk might be.
    • Therefore, it is not even clear that frisks would have done anything to prevent the tragic deaths in Russia.
    • The quality of life for the richest 5 percent of the population was raised to dizzying heights, while poor and minority youth faced a daily routine of police stops, frisks and worse.
    • The panel addressed the issue of whether probable cause to seize an object can arise during a frisk when a police officer knows the object in question to be narcotics.
    • They will come and take you out to the back area, and they will do a bit of a frisk.
    • The government itself brought in an amendment to ensure that a search of a person, whether a strip search or frisk, would be carried out by a person of the same sex.
    • The bouncers accordingly started a five minute long frisk to ensure that they were not smuggling in any bottles of spirits.
    • If he knows that he could be frisked, he can place a non-metal explosive in a location that will not be disclosed by a frisk.
    • The frisks apply only to selected passengers - chosen at the screener's discretion.
    • Lin and Huang as well as five other people were asked to line up for a frisk.
    • The police department has no way to know how many individuals have been frisked or whether those frisks are legal.
    • A frisk is a pat down on the outside of your clothing.
  • 2A playful skip or leap.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the procession approached Hadleigh, he slipped off his horse, and leaped and took a frisk or two, as men commonly do in dancing.

Derivatives

  • frisker

  • noun
    • It has 180,000 immigration officers, Customs agents, airport friskers, Coast Guard personnel and others.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This means heavier pats from heavy-handed friskers.
      • Wheelchair-bound and wearing a prosthetic leg, he was enraged when frisker tried to confiscate his amulet, an M - 16 bullet that hung on his keychain, at the final security check at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
      • Hand-and-foot monitors are provided at high traffic boundaries and friskers at the rest.
      • While this is standard operating procedure, they only had a couple friskers at each door, and five or six security guards looking lethargically over the crowd.

Origin

Early 16th century (in sense 2 of the noun): from obsolete frisk 'lively, frisky', from Old French frisque 'alert, lively, merry', perhaps of Germanic origin. sense 1 of the noun, originally a slang term, dates from the late 18th century.

Rhymes

bisque, brisk, disc, disk, fisc, risk, whisk
 
 

Definition of frisk in US English:

frisk

verbfrɪskfrisk
  • 1with object (of a police officer or other official) pass the hands over (someone) in a search for hidden weapons, drugs, or other items.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was by the same people who had frisked me the previous four times.
    • As part of a countywide review, the court on Burneside Road, Kendal, now has an appointed security officer armed with a hand-held metal detector to frisk people entering the building.
    • Officers frisked Barnes and made him stand with them near the police cars.
    • According to zoo staff, they are unable to fully prevent the entry of plastic as they have no powers to frisk people entering the zoo.
    • Schoolchildren could be frisked for weapons against their will as teachers are recruited into the crackdown on youth knife culture.
    • A machine gunner atop a Humvee kept his weapon trained on the truck and watched through binoculars as it came to a halt and troops frisked the driver and a companion.
    • Geoffrey froze as the third policeman came over and roughly frisked him.
    • But I listened very carefully and don't remember that he actually said that those officers could then stop and frisk the individuals under suspicion.
    • Guests were frisked; their luggage was searched.
    • 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.
    • The 10th grader told Mr. Gober that he had been grabbed by a police officer, pushed against a wall, and frisked.
    • He frisked me, then twisted my arms, and placed handcuffs on me.
    • He held me tighter as his colleague proceeded to frisk me.
    • 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.
    • He holstered the pistol and frisked her for weapons.
    • The federal police will also frisk pilgrims, search their belongings and maintain order within their camps.
    • While the above examples have affected a few citizens, there is a much larger policy issue also at stake: the police have been authorized to stop and frisk any citizen whom they consider suspicious.
    • One of them relieved Phelps of his gun and gun belt, while the other frisked him for hidden weapons or other ‘dangerous’ articles.
    • Most recently, he was frisked by officers looking for car thieves.
    • He said after the shooting, police and federal agents who came aboard the plane thoroughly frisked passengers and then ordered them off the plane, ‘all of us with our hands on our heads’.
    Synonyms
    search, body-search, check, inspect, examine
  • 2no object, with adverbial of direction (of an animal or person) skip or leap playfully; frolic.

    this did not deter the foal from frisking about
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There was a man called Mr. Montaro Mori who was a student of the Tokyo Imperial University, which later became Tokyo University, and he and I and some others used to frisk around together.
    • The premiere of Woolf Phrase, on a bare stage, featured Richard Siegal speaking passages by Virginia Woolf and frisking like a puppy.
    • I look down to a meadow in Central Park and see tiny muffled moppets frisking around like children in a Dutch painting.
    • 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.
    • He watches them flirt, frolic, frisk and fondle.
    • For four years John Phelan allowed the beautiful freckled-faced colt to frisk and gambol to his hearts content in long meadow.
    • Unlike horses, these unicorns would not move until after they had been fed and groomed, and then they would take themselves out to the giant corrals to frisk among themselves.
    • ‘She was caught in the bush, sir,’ he explained, glancing down at the dog that was still frisking about.
    • Today, after cardiac surgery, the two children seem fine, happy and frisk about.
    • River otters frisked in appreciation of winter's retreat.
    • Oh alright, I'll go and frisk, I suppose, if you insist.
    • You don't get to see them frisk like that around the Suffolk sheds.
    • There was a little foal frisking beside its mother.
    • We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July.
    • She says she can picture Charlie right now frisking about some green field of Heaven, wearing his loop of flowers.
    Synonyms
    frolic, gambol, cavort, caper, cut capers, sport, scamper, skip, dance, romp, trip, prance, leap, spring, hop, jump, bounce, bob
    1. 2.1with object (of an animal) move or wave (its tail or legs) playfully.
      a horse was frisking his back legs like a colt
nounfrɪskfrisk
  • 1in singular An act of frisking someone.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The panel addressed the issue of whether probable cause to seize an object can arise during a frisk when a police officer knows the object in question to be narcotics.
    • A frisk is a pat down on the outside of your clothing.
    • The quality of life for the richest 5 percent of the population was raised to dizzying heights, while poor and minority youth faced a daily routine of police stops, frisks and worse.
    • The police department has no way to know how many individuals have been frisked or whether those frisks are legal.
    • The frisks apply only to selected passengers - chosen at the screener's discretion.
    • Therefore, it is not even clear that frisks would have done anything to prevent the tragic deaths in Russia.
    • They will come and take you out to the back area, and they will do a bit of a frisk.
    • The bouncers accordingly started a five minute long frisk to ensure that they were not smuggling in any bottles of spirits.
    • If he knows that he could be frisked, he can place a non-metal explosive in a location that will not be disclosed by a frisk.
    • But such detection is allowed and is arguably a much lesser intrusion of privacy than, say, a frisk might be.
    • Lin and Huang as well as five other people were asked to line up for a frisk.
    • The government itself brought in an amendment to ensure that a search of a person, whether a strip search or frisk, would be carried out by a person of the same sex.
  • 2A playful skip or leap.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the procession approached Hadleigh, he slipped off his horse, and leaped and took a frisk or two, as men commonly do in dancing.

Origin

Early 16th century (in frisk (sense 2 of the noun)): from obsolete frisk ‘lively, frisky’, from Old French frisque ‘alert, lively, merry’, perhaps of Germanic origin. frisk (sense 1 of the noun), originally a slang term, dates from the late 18th century.

 
 
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