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stop-and-frisk

stop-and-frisk adjective: synonym of stop-and-search.

Adjective

stop-and-frisk (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of stop-and-search.
    • Prospective presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg apologized for New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices at a huge black church in Brooklyn last week2019 November 18, Derecka Purnell, “Bloomberg's weak apology for stop-and-frisk is too little, too late”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    stop-and-search

Noun

stop-and-frisk (plural stop-and-frisks or stops-and-frisks)

  1. Synonym of stop-and-search.
    Synonyms:
    stop-and-search

Synonyms of stop-and-frisk

Forms of stop-and-frisk

pluralstop-and-frisks
pluralstops-and-frisks

Questions about stop-and-frisk

What does stop-and-frisk mean?
Stop-and-frisk means synonym of stop-and-search.
What part of speech is stop-and-frisk?
Stop-and-frisk can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near stop-and-frisk in the dictionary

  1. stop valves
  2. stop word
  3. stop words
  4. stop, drop and roll
  5. stop-action
  6. stop-and-frisk
  7. stop-and-frisks
  8. stop-and-go
  9. stop-and-go light
  10. stop-and-go lights
  11. stop-and-go penalties

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