Frisk \Frisk\, a. A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. --Johnson.
Frisk \Frisk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frisked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frisking}.] To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
The frisking satyrs on the summits danced. --Addison.
frisk \frisk\ (fr[i^]sk), v. t. To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath; as, the police pulled the car over and frisked the occupants.
Syn: frisk. [WordNet 1.5]
At college football games, it isn't unusual for campus police to frisk students for booze or even drugs.
The make-up people have been at his whiskers, curling the white moustache and giving a vertical frisk to the white eyebrows.
But the justices have allowed police to make brief investigatory stops to question and even frisk someone if they have a "reasonable suspicion" _ a more lenient standard than probable cause.
They lined the men up against the wall as if for a routine frisk for weapons, and instead delivered a Valentine's Day hail of gunfire that riddled the victims, almost severing limbs.