Frisking

You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang. ❋ William Safire (2004)

Dorking family, that second Lady Henrietta Pulleyn, whom we described as frisking about at Baden, and not in the least afraid of him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The subtle pat-down before the actual snatch was called frisking the cly. ❋ William Safire (2004)

Kew, we know, married one of the Dorking family, that second Lady Henrietta Pulleyn, whom we described as frisking about at Baden, and not in the least afraid of him. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

His face burning with embarrassment, Dundee went through the traditional gestures of police "frisking" -- running his hands rapidly down the girl's tall, sturdy body, slapping her pockets. ❋ Anne Austin (N/A)

And they plastered the picture of Christine Whitman "frisking" a black kid .... in Camden (or Trenton) I guess they should have thrown in a few "Token" white males and Asian females to balance out that line up ... but those kids were probably home studying chemistry or getting some sleep for thier SAT's the next day .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

India's biggest automaker by sales, has increased security at its factories such as frisking of staff and use of metal detectors, said Debasis Ray, a company spokesman. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Melissa most certainly did not refer to a "frisking" by Iain, she was quoting a comment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In concerns the recent 'frisking' of Lib Dem AM, Eleanor Burnham at Cardiff Airport, an indignity to which the attractive flamboyant brunette bitterly objected. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)

She gave Evan a tip once about a former police chief who drove around drunk at night, pulling over teenage girls and "frisking" them. ❋ Walter, Jess, 1969- (2003)

He looked at the companies of soldiers "frisking" the route, the grounds, and the crowd-higher up, at the hovering helicopters-still higher, at the eight light cruisers so evidently and so viciously ready to blast higher still, at the long streamers of fire which, he now knew, marked the locations of the two most powerful engines of destruction ever built by man-and his face turned slowly white. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)

There was a certain hesitancy on the part even of the law-abiding to assert too loudly their opposition to the light-triggered elements which were "frisking" their horses and cattle. ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)

Whereupon, when the Lieutenant had interpreted to me their permission, we fell upon them and amid countless expressions of mutual esteem gave them and their baggage such a "frisking" as befalls a Kaffir leaving a South African diamond mine, and found them armed with -- a receipt from the quarantine doctor for "one pearl-handled Smill and Wilson No. 32." ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)

Early in the month a 'frisking' took place, with amusing results. ❋ Maud Howe Elliott (1915)

Secondly, I do believe "frisking" should be a policy IN AN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"frisking"; and at the same time the other men had seized Kumme. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Passengers who trigger an alert, and anyone who refuses to go through the scanners, will receive the rigorous frisking that has drawn sharp objections. ❋ Ashley Halsey III (2011)