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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The search of a person for illegal or contraband articles, such as drugs or weapons, by requiring the removal of enough clothing to allow the inspection of normally private parts of the person's body.
- transitive verb To conduct a strip search of (a person).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A search for items hidden on a person preformed by removing that person's clothes.
- verb Search for items hidden on a person, by removing clothes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes
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