strip-search

1. 1.

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

   “He was strip-searched at the airport”

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Questions about strip-search

What does strip-search mean?

strip-search means "search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes".

How many syllables are in strip-search?

strip-search has 3 syllables and divides as strip--se-arch under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.