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strip-search

strip-search is the alternative form of strip search.

Meaning of strip search

Noun

strip search (plural strip searches)

  1. A search for items hidden on a person, performed by removing the person's clothes.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see strip, search.
    • I've been using the online strip searches to find old comics I remember from childhood.

See all 3 meanings of strip search

Forms of strip-search

Noun
pluralstrip-searches
Verb
third-person singular presentstrip-searches
present participlestrip-searching
past participlestrip-searched
paststrip-searched

Questions about strip-search

What is strip-search the alternative form of?
Strip-search is the alternative form of strip search.

Words near strip-search in the dictionary

  1. strip-mine
  2. strip-mined
  3. strip-mines
  4. strip-mining
  5. strip-poker
  6. strip-search
  7. strip-searched
  8. strip-searches
  9. strip-searching
  10. stripagram
  11. stripagrams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strip-search (page history and authors); strip search (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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