frisk

1. 1.

   the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs

   “he gave the suspect a quick frisk”

   Synonymsfrisking

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plural

frisks·

past tense

frisked·

present participle

frisking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frisk

What does frisk mean?

frisk means "play boisterously". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frisk?

frisk has 1 syllable: frisk. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪsk/.

What is another word for frisk?

Close synonyms include frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frisk a common word?

frisk is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.