A police action of this type.

present participle of strip-search

simple past tense and past participle of strip-search

plural of soul-searching

(UK) A fastidious forensic search of a crime scene, usually performed by investigators crawling along the ground.

(US, law enforcement) A search carried out by the police during a Terry stop.

plural of search party

(computing theory) A search for a value within a sorted array by repeatedly comparing the target value with the middle element; if they are unequal, the half in which the target cannot lie is eliminated and the comparison is repeated on the remaining half.

plural of soul searching

(Internet) The transmission of a user's search terms from a search engine to the site in the search results that the user chooses to visit; regarded as a privacy risk.