Definitions for frisk

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Spelling: [frisk]
IPA: /frɪsk/

Frisk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in frisk (fikrs).

Definitions for frisk

noun

  1. a leap, skip, or caper.
  2. a frolic or gambol.
  3. the act of frisking a person.

verb (used with object)

  1. to search (a person) for concealed weapons, contraband goods, etc., by feeling the person's clothing:

verb (used without object)

  1. to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic:

Origin of frisk

1425-75; late Middle English, as adj. Middle French frisque, perhaps a spelling variant (with mute s) of fri(c)que lively, smart Germanic (compare Middle Dutch vrec, Old High German freh avar

Examples for frisk

Then you had frisk with you, and I suppose as playful as usual?

After all, it was frisk who did it, and I did not even see frisk do it.

It's long past frisk's dinner-time, and he has not brought her food!

Another issue was stop and frisk, which the police had been using to keep shootings down.

When I frisk a pair of cut-throats with them, it's different.

Would there be an end to the way cops stop, question, and frisk people on the street?

When being processed into solitary confinement, known as the Special Housing Unit, or SHU, the frisk is even more severe.

He wanted to take with him his drum and his rocking-chair, and frisk his dog.

The official compared the change in intelligence strategy to the shift in “stop, question, and frisk” tactics in the street.

“Whether you look at CompStat or you talk about ‘stop and frisk,’ it comes down to the same thing,” he says.

Word Value for frisk
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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