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Meanings of frisk in English

Portuguese
fazer travessuras
Catalan
saltar

Play boisterously.

fazer travessuras

The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs.

Synonyms
Examples for "frisking"
Examples for "frisking"
1
A few lambs were frisking together at the foot of the hill.
Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)
2
The pacha called the latter, which came springing and frisking towards him.
The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
3
Satan bounded toward the tall boy, frisking and trustful and begged again.
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories
4
The calves and cows are ahead, frisking and playing as they go.
The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry
5
Vere liked Lorna, and was amused to see us frisking about together.
The Heart of Una Sackville
Usage of frisk in English
1
Politely they asked if they might frisk me, then allowed me in.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
2
The love of Nothus makes her frisk about like a wanton she-goat.
The Works of Horace
3
He gave the corpse a quick frisk pat-down that came up empty.
Death angel
4
Whenever the fawn caught up, he was quite content to frisk about.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
5
He sat down, he was so frightened he could not frisk about.
Wood Magic: A Fable
6
Edward Fordyce looked at her, puzzled and still angry about the frisk.
Mine
7
You cover, make the frisk, and put the blindfold over my eyes.
The wrong venus
8
Not surprisingly, stop and frisk tactics overwhelmingly target Black and Latino men.
Ebony
9
Sherry said you used to like to frisk her in the ninth grade.
It Must Be Love
10
They danced for the sake of motion, as lambs frisk in a meadow.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
11
These are same hucksters who stated that stop and frisk worked.
Ebony
12
Police in Ciudad Juárez frisk a man during a security sweep.
The Guardian
13
Joe Biden echoed the sentiment, saying that Bloomberg's apologies for stop-and-frisk were insufficient.
The Guardian
14
He put it away, out of reach, and resumed the frisk.
Death angel
15
The pale sprite nodded curtly, then continued to frisk K-Max's person.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
16
A whole morning to make cowslip balls, she added with a little frisk.
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
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Frisk through the time
Frisk across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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