/ frɪsk; NAmE / verb
1.
[ vn ] to pass your hands over sb's body to search them for hidden weapons, drugs, etc.
2.
[ v ] frisk (around) ( of animals ) to run and jump in a lively and happy way
SYN gambol , skip :
Lambs frisked in the fields.
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WORD ORIGIN
early 16th cent. (in sense 2): from obsolete frisk lively, frisky , from Old French frisque alert, lively, merry, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 1, originally a slang term, dates from the late 18th cent.