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fingertip search

fingertip search noun: a fastidious forensic search of a crime scene, usually performed by investigators crawling along the ground.

Noun

fingertip search (plural fingertip searches)

  1. (UK) A fastidious forensic search of a crime scene, usually performed by investigators crawling along the ground.
    • Several media liaison officers placed particular emphasis on the use of photo opportunities of elements of the investigation to gain or revive press interest (fingertip searches, house-to-house visits, underwater searches and so on).1999, Andy Feist, The effective use of the media in serious crime investigations, London: Home Office, Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, →ISBN
    • Police search teams led by Police Constable Franklin and Police Constable Sawyer conducted a thorough fingertip search of the common approach path of the area surrounding the body and of the area on either side of the approach path.2004, Lord Brian Hutton, Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons Dated 28th January 2004 for the Report of the Inquiry Into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David...

Forms of fingertip search

pluralfingertip searches
alternative formfinger-tip search

Questions about fingertip search

What does fingertip search mean?
Fingertip search means a fastidious forensic search of a crime scene, usually performed by investigators crawling along the ground.
What part of speech is fingertip search?
Fingertip search is a noun.
What is the plural of fingertip search?
The plural of fingertip search is fingertip searches.

Words near fingertip search in the dictionary

  1. fingersucking
  2. fingertapping
  3. fingertappings
  4. fingertight
  5. fingertip
  6. fingertip search
  7. fingertip searches
  8. fingertipful
  9. fingertipfuls
  10. fingertipped
  11. fingertipping

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