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frisking en · NOUN
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The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
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The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.
1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun:
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frisk · patdown
frisking en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of frisk