What does strip-search mean?

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strip-search

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. strip searchverb

    searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes

  2. strip-searchverb

    search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes

    "He was strip-searched at the airport"

Wiktionary

  1. strip-searchnoun

    A body search where the cloths are removed (stripped).

  2. strip-searchverb

    To remove clothes and do a body search.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of strip-search in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of strip-search in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of strip-search in a Sentence

  1. Samuel Cammack III:

    It wasn't a strip search, it was a manual cavity search.


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