0 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
1 to remove a person's clothes in order to look for illegal things such as drugs:
2 the act of searching for illegal items hidden on or in someone's body, in which authorities force the person to remove all of his or her clothes
A narcotics surveillance team swooped down and strip-searched him in a stairwell of a fast-food outlet.
Students have sued in cases where they are strip-searched for stolen items.
Do we really want to have security guards on our school gates and start strip-searching students for drugs and weapons?
The jail routinely strip-searches incoming pretrial detainees.
