(a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
(v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
Example Sentences:
(1) This will be one city, where everyone’s rights are respected, and where police and community stand together to confront violence.” New York City judge Shira Scheindlin ruled stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional in August 2013.
(2) A predominantly type-specific mu-capture radioimmunoassay (RIA) of IgM antibodies to Coxsackie B1-B5 (CB1-CB5) viruses was previously described (Frisk et al., 1984).
(3) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(4) She called for an "immediate" change to the policy, and the appointment of an independent monitor to ensure that the NYPD carries out stop-and-frisks in accordance with the US constitution.
(5) A video of his arrest captured by a nearby security camera and published by the local TV channel ABC 7 shows the police initially frisking him, then handcuffing him and finally piling on top of Hernandez as he lay on the sidewalk while apparently hitting him with batons.
(6) The structural racism people of color experience isn’t harming police – unless they’re people of color, off duty, and subjected to stop and frisk by their fellow officers.
(7) For a middle class Indian babu to be frisked is unimaginable.
(8) I suppose I am less visibly attached to my children in a sense because they have your surname – maybe there is a tiny fear that it may cause problems some day – being frisked at border controls or something.
(9) We believe that both the murder of another unarmed black youth and the building of a new jail which will primarily house black people are state violence, a term which encompasses both immediate acts of violence by the state (like stop and frisks, or police shootings) and “slower” forms of violence that the state sanctions, condones or enables (like poverty, segregation, surveillance, militarization and incarceration).
(10) The case – Floyd v City of New York – was the result of 14 years of litigation against the stop and frisk policy.
(11) Stop-and-frisk violated an individual's right to protection under the fourth and 14th amendments of the constitution, Scheindlin concluded.
(12) A New York judge ruled Monday that stop-and-frisk searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.
(13) The videos, says Jennifer Carnig, a spokeswoman for the NYCLU, provided an unprecedented insight into discriminatory policing under stop and frisk: verbal and physical abuse, heavy-handed searches and the drawing of weapons on people who appear to be unarmed.
(14) Bloomberg, a staunch advocate of stop-and-frisk throughout his 12 years as New York City’s mayor, had asked the second circuit court for a stay on the ruling and the remedy measures.
(15) The heart of the reform ordered after we won the stop-and-frisk case is a joint remedial process that brings community members and other stakeholders together to discuss and hammer out the actual law enforcement and accountability reforms.
(16) Trump insisted: “I also explained last night stop and frisk was constitutional.
(17) Bloomberg's policing strategies also proved controversial, especially over the last few years, as the NYPD's stop-and-frisk programme came under increased scrutiny.
(18) I’ve lived here for 20 years and I lost count of the number of times I was stopped and frisked by the police by the time I was in high school,” said Nate Jeffrey, 32, a mechanic with the city’s transit authority.
(19) We know that police stopped and frisked New Yorkers more than 4m times in a decade , most of them black and Latino, 90% of them, according to the NYPD’s own figures , innocent of any crime.
(20) He said New York City’s law department and plaintiffs in two stop-and-frisk legal cases against the city had agreed that they would recommend to the district court that the monitor supervision will have oversight for three years.
Frisky
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fans get frisky with the green and yellow Caipirinha-flavoured World Cup condoms are flying off the shelves in Brazil as fans stretch their passion for the home team to new lengths.
(2) And look over there; surely it can’t be, but yes, my word: stern old Mr Sillars getting all frisky with Ms May, the boarding school matron, and her kitten heels.
(3) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
(4) He confesses he does enjoy the thrill of his out-of-hours Frisky Gary persona.
(5) Both Rudulph and Porter suggest their lifestyle choices are in some way feminist: "Ever since Mary played the Immaculate card in Bethlehem, our culture has been struggling with a fundamental split: women are unconsciously perceived as either good girls or good-time girls, either naughty or nice … [But] suddenly we can be mothers AND be considered frisky in the bedroom," gushes Porter .
(6) And yet none of those messages break into the mainstream debate, in which we reach some rather jolly conclusions about the frisky over-70s, along with sober reflections on whether having a laptop in the bedroom depletes our sexual activity .
(7) Besides the presence of a frisky Gordon setter, the scene when I arrive for my appointment with Melinda Nettleton and John Friel exudes simplicity and order: a pristine meeting room at a London legal chambers, tea and biscuits served on spotless white china and conversation of lawyerly precision.
(8) Reed honed his comedic style at Cartoon Network's anarchic late-night offshoot Adult Swim, where he devised underwater adventure series Sealab 2021 and superhero parody Frisky Dingo.
(9) On The Frisky Amelia McDonnell-Parry wrote: "Whoopi Goldberg, who I never expected to be a rape apologist, coins a term I've never heard before – 'rape-rape' ."
(10) Three years after Thinner was turned into a poorly received film, Bryan Smith was driving along Maine's Route 5 while trying to control his frisky rottweiler, Bullet.
(11) Facing each other across a quayside street are the fun and frisky Dice Bar , where I’ve spent many a tipsy Friday night, and the agreeably diveish Frank Ryan’s .