Definitions for frisk
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. frisk, friskingverb

   the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs

   "he gave the suspect a quick frisk"

2. frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark aboutverb

   play boisterously

   "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

3. friskverb

   search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets

   "The police frisked everyone at the airport"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. frisknoun

   A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.

2. friskverb

   to frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap

3. friskverb

   to search somebody by feeling their clothes

   The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.

4. friskadjective

   Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.

5. Etymology: From frisk, from frisque, of origin, perhaps from frisc or frisc, ultimately from friskaz. Cognate with frískur. More at fresh.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Frisknoun

   A frolick; a fit of wanton gaiety.

   Etymology: from the verb.

2. To FRISKverb

   Etymology: frizzare, Italian.

   1. To leap; to skip.

   Put water into a glass, and wet your finger, and draw it round about the lip of the glass, pressing it somewhat hard; and after drawing it some few times about, it will make the water frisk and sprinkle up in a fine dew. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   The fish fell a frisking in the net. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

   Whether every one hath experimented this troublesome intrusion of some striking ideas, which thus importune the understanding, and hinder it from being better employed, I know not. John Locke.

   2. To dance in frolick or gaiety.

   We are as twinn’d lamb, that did frisk i’ th’ sun,
   And bleat the one at the other: what we chang’d,
   Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
   The doctrine of ill-doing. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   About them frisking play’d
   All beasts of th’ earth. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iv.

   A wanton heifer frisked up and down in a meadow, at ease and pleasure. Roger L'Estrange.

   Watch the quick motions of the frisking tail,
   Then serve their fury with the rushing male. John Dryden, Virgil.

   So Bacchus through the conquer’d Indies rode,
   And beasts in gambols frisk’d before their honest god. Dryd.

   Oft to the mountains airy tops advanc’d,
   The frisking satyrs on the summits danc’d. Addison.

   Those merry blades,
   That frisk it under Pindus’ shades. Matthew Prior.

   Peg faints at the sound of an organ, and yet will dance and frisk at the noise of a bagpipe. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of John Bull.

   Sly hunters thus, in Borneo’s isle,
   To catch a monkey by a wile,
   The mimick animal amuse;
   They place before him gloves and shoes;
   Which when the brute puts aukward on,
   All his agility is gone:
   In vain to frisk or climb he tries;
   The huntsmen seize the grinning prize. Jonathan Swift.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Friskadjective

   lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky

2. Friskadjective

   a frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap

3. Friskverb

   to leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety

4. Etymology: [OF. frieque, cf. OHG. frise lively, brisk, fresh, Dan. & Sw. frisk, Icel. friskr. See Fresh, a.]

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1. Frisk

   Frisk is a 1995 drama film, directed by Todd Verow, based on the 1991 novel of the same name by author Dennis Cooper. It is a first-person narrative about a serial killer. Dennis describes a series of ritual murders in letters to his sometime lover and best friend, Julian, and Julian's younger brother Kevin. It is banned in the UK due to its content. The cast includes Parker Posey and Alexis Arquette.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Frisk

   frisk, v.i. to gambol: to leap playfully.—n. a frolic.—n. Frisk′er.—adj. Frisk′ful, brisk, lively.—adv. Frisk′ily.—n. Frisk′iness.—adj. Frisk′ing.—adv. Frisk′ingly.—adj. Frisk′y, lively: jumping with gaiety: frolicsome. [O. Fr. frisque; acc. to Skeat, from Ice. frískr, Sw. and Dan. frisk.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FRISK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Frisk is ranked #15681 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Frisk surname appeared 1,861 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Frisk.
   
   93.8% or 1,747 total occurrences were White.
   3% or 56 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.1% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.7% or 13 total occurrences were Black.
   0.7% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.5% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of frisk in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of frisk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of frisk in a Sentence

1. Erik Pistek:

   [But]since the curtailment of [this], in addition to bail reform, in my opinion, crime is spiking, and the figures are reflecting that. The curtailment of the question-and-frisk is handcuffing the cops. Politicians give the appearance that they care more about criminals than the cops.

2. Scott Prendergast:

   The increase in knives is more connected to ending stop and frisk. . . so the criminals know they can carry knives like they did back in the 1980s.

3. Mason Williams:

   Adams was front and center critiquing (former NYPD Commissioner) Ray Kelly during the 'stop and frisk' controversy, and yet, on the other hand, he still views the NYPD as essential to the health of the city. And he's willing to put more resources into it, which separates him from the radical reformers who want to rethink what they see as over-policing. So that's why he comes across as complicated -- he's embodying these two legacies of the Giuliani and Bloomberg years that typically set people against each other in politics.

4. Keechant Sewell:

   We've learned that stop and frisk is not the answer, that violence reduction can happen independent of that, and we saw that in New York over many years, so as far as... data providing credence that we should have more of those policies, I don't think there's any evidence of that.

5. Former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir:

   As criminals see the police restrained by new laws, policy and regulations that restrict tactics like stop and frisk or broken windows, they no longer fear the police and certainty of arrest, while in the past, they would not carry their weapons because of fear of arrest, they now do, and therefore the opportunity for armed confrontations with police significantly increases.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=frisk
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Frisk
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=frisk
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frisk
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=frisk
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=frisk
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html