Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - strip-search

also strip search (strip-searches, strip-searching, strip-searched) 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. All 23 of them were strip-searched for drugs. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed for n, also be V-ed