frisk
/fɹɪsk/ verb C2- To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
- To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing. · The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.
- To search (a place). · Furniture was tipped over and drawers pulled out. Someone had obviously frisked the joint before we arrived.
He/she/it frisks · Past frisked · Past participle frisked · -ing form frisking
Verb forms
- Base form
- frisk
- He/she/it
- frisks
- Past
- frisked
- Past participle
- frisked
- -ing form
- frisking
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He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master’s house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could.
AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling.
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