Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense strip-searches, present participle strip-searching, past tense, past participle strip-searched
verb [usually passive]
If a person is strip-searched, someone such as a police officer makes them take off all their clothes and searches them, usually to see if they are carrying drugs or weapons. Compare body search.
I was strip-searched at the airport. [beV-ed ]
[Also beV-ed + for]
Strip search is also a noun.
They suspected that he might be carrying a weapon and ordered a strip search.
strip-search in British English
verb
1. (transitive)
(of police, customs officials, etc) to strip (a prisoner or suspect) naked to search him or her for contraband, narcotics, etc
noun
2.
a search that involves stripping a person naked
Derived forms
strip-searching (ˈstrip-ˌsearching)
noun
strip-search in American English
(ˈstrɪpˌsɜrtʃ)
verb transitive
1.
to search (a person) by requiring removal of the clothes