"strip search" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: strip searches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} strip search (plural strip searches)
  1. A search for items hidden on a person, performed by removing the person's clothes. Translations (search performed by removing clothes): 脫衣搜身 (Chinese Mandarin), 脱衣搜身 (tuōyī sōushēn) (Chinese Mandarin), ruumiintarkastus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-strip_search-en-noun-YG8RsK39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 9 22 Disambiguation of 'search performed by removing clothes': 71 29
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see strip, search.
    Sense id: en-strip_search-en-noun-f0LdNMhv

Verb

Forms: strip searches [present, singular, third-person], strip searching [participle, present], strip searched [participle, past], strip searched [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} strip search (third-person singular simple present strip searches, present participle strip searching, simple past and past participle strip searched)
  1. To search for items hidden on a person, by removing clothes. Translations (search by removing clothes): 脫衣搜身 (Chinese Mandarin), 脱衣搜身 (tuōyī sōushēn) (Chinese Mandarin), tehdä ruumiintarkastus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-strip_search-en-verb-N7DXBLpM

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for strip search meaning in English (2.5kB)

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