Word: frisk
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...wretched horde who haunt the street at midnight to rob drunken men." Its meaning, as given by the American Thesaurus of Slang: robbery with violence. In New York City muggers usually attack from behind if possible, throwing one arm around the victim's neck, while the assistant muggers frisk the victim...
...play itself is frisk, witty, and occasionally over-brittle in the usual Kaufman-Hart style. It revolves with enjoyable triviality about the back-to-nature mania of a city bred business man who buys a dilapidated farmhouse and then sees his hopes of an idyllic old age threatened, respectively, by a wife whose love for things rural extends very little beyond Central Park, a mortgage held by the neighborhood crank, and the explosion of a rich uncle myth into the reality of a parasitical poor relation...
...Many of them carry "switch-blade" knives-a knife with a long, wicked blade released by a spring-button. School principals often call in police to frisk their pupils during recess, sometimes unearth not only knives but blackjacks...
...readers' minds to frisk...
...lives with his wife, daughter of a Swedish immigrant family, and his doctor son Alvin Julius, in a narrow six-room house, cluttered with books and papers. From his house Dr. Carlson can see five grey squirrels who frisk in the back yard and even that stimulates his scientific mind. Last spring in Science he noted that a pregnant squirrel dug up old bones, gnawed them constantly. He suggested that someone experiment with squirrels' craving for bones and their physical need for calcium and phosphorus during pregnancy...