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frisk someone's cly

frisk someone's cly verb: to steal from someone's pocket.

Verb

frisk someone's cly (third-person singular simple present frisks someone's cly, present participle frisking someone's cly, simple past and past participle frisked someone's cly)

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) To steal from someone's pocket.
    • To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10

Forms of frisk someone's cly

third-person singular presentfrisks someone's cly
present participlefrisking someone's cly
past participlefrisked someone's cly
pastfrisked someone's cly

Questions about frisk someone's cly

What does frisk someone's cly mean?
Frisk someone's cly means to steal from someone's pocket.
What part of speech is frisk someone's cly?
Frisk someone's cly is a verb.
What is the past tense of frisk someone's cly?
The past tense of frisk someone's cly is frisked someone's cly.

Words near frisk someone's cly in the dictionary

  1. Frisic
  2. Frisii
  3. Frisina
  4. Frisinas
  5. frisk
  6. frisk someone's cly
  7. friska
  8. friskals
  9. friskas
  10. Friske
  11. frisked

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