frisk someone's cly en · VERB
Meanings
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(obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) To steal from someone's pocket.
To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| frisking someone's cly | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| frisks someone's cly | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| frisked someone's cly | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| frisked someone's cly | Tense=Past | lexicographic |