frisk
verb/frɪsk/
/frɪsk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they frisk | /frɪsk/ /frɪsk/ |
| he / she / it frisks | /frɪsks/ /frɪsks/ |
| past simple frisked | /frɪskt/ /frɪskt/ |
| past participle frisked | /frɪskt/ /frɪskt/ |
| -ing form frisking | /ˈfrɪskɪŋ/ /ˈfrɪskɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] frisk somebody to pass your hands over somebody’s body to search them for hidden weapons, drugs, etc.
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- [intransitive] frisk (around) (of animals) to run and jump in a lively and happy way synonym gambol, skip
- Lambs frisked in the fields.
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in sense (2)): from obsolete frisk ‘lively, frisky’, from Old French frisque ‘alert, lively, merry’, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense (1), originally a slang term, dates from the late 18th cent.
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