strip searchnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈstrɪp sɜːtʃ/us/ˈstrɪp sɝːtʃ/the process of removing the clothes of a prisoner, or someone thought to have committed a crime, by a police officer or government official in order to find any illegal things, such as drugs
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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strip-search
verb [ T ] ukus
We were stopped by customs officers at the airport and strip-searched for no apparent reason.