strip search

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

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Questions about strip search

What does strip search mean?

strip search means "searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes".

Is strip search a common word?

strip search is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.