0 past simple and past participle of frisk
1 to use your hands to search someone's body when they are wearing clothes to see if they are hiding illegal objects or weapons:
We were all frisked at the airport.
I frisked his side pocket and there was a recording machine, no bigger than a paper-back book.
All of us have been stopped, invited to get out of our cars on a pouring wet night and frisked.
I can understand that, in some cases, this should be a secondary measure, where an individual chooses not to be, as we say, frisked by a security official.
Theatre goers not only pass through two metal detectors but are even frisked by policemen before being allowed in.
They were arrested on the spot by armed police, frisked and escorted out.
Visitors are frisked and bags and baskets are checked for explosives.
The reporters and media people in the airport were frisked away and the seer was not allowed to speak with the media.
Teams were frisked at the start but only innocent substances found.
