0 present 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.
They could also be hidden inside cloth uniforms, such as in a seam or inside a collar, that wouldn't betray their existence during a frisking or inspection.
A law enforcement officer may briefly detain a person upon reasonable suspicion of involvement in a crime but short of probable cause to arrest; this is commonly kown as frisking.
He then followed this up by frisking her with a full body scanner.
He has his security frisking the bands on the way in.
Records are not kept of the occasions when rub-down searching or "frisking" is carried out in prisons.
The frisking would be against the young.
Unless practised in permanent frisking, they cannot achieve any noticeable effect.
So it includes intimate searches, strip searches and simple frisking.