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STRIP-SEARCH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes
Example:
He was strip-searched at the airport
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "strip-search" is one way to...):
search (subject to a search)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to strip-search the prisoners
