Usually means: Intrusive search for hidden items.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word strip-search:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. strip-search: Merriam-Webster
  2. strip-search: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strip-search: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strip-search, strip-search: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strip-search: Vocabulary.com
  6. strip-search: Wordnik
  7. strip-search: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. strip-search: Wiktionary
  9. strip-search: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strip-search: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strip-search: Dictionary.com
  12. Strip-search: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. strip-search: Rhymezone
  14. strip-search: FreeDictionary.org
  15. strip-search: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. strip-search: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strip-search: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strip-search: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of strip search [A search for items hidden on a person, performed by removing the person's clothes.]
▸ verb:  Alternative form of strip search [To search for items hidden on a person, by removing clothes.]

Similar:
strip, body, zipper, underwear, skinsuit, deshabille, clothesbrush, underwrap, posing pouch, bottom, more...

Opposite:
dress, clothe, cover, outfit, attire

Types:
frisk, pat-down, cavity search, strip search, more...

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Similar:
strip, body, zipper, underwear, skinsuit, deshabille, clothesbrush, underwrap, posing pouch, bottom, more...

Opposite:
dress, clothe, cover, outfit, attire

Types:
frisk, pat-down, cavity search, strip search, more...



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