(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.
Romp
Definition:
(v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
(n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
(n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
(2) Our assays amplified a 500 bp fragment from the gene encoding the rOmp B protein of Rickettsia rickettsii.
(3) The first part of the evening saw the singer romp through hits including Let's Go Crazy alongside new songs such as Fixurlifeup with his band 3rdEyedGirl.
(4) Arevalo flicks a couple of one-twos down a romp along the inside-left channel, first with Forlan, then with Suarez.
(5) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
(6) It was a sado-masochistic romp and I was given a copy in France in the 1960s when it was probably illegal in England.
(7) With nine out of 10 Greater Manchester councils run by or dominated by Labour, the Labour candidate is expected to romp to victory unless a celebrity Mancunian like Noel Gallagher comes to the fore and steals the show.
(8) The votes are in for next month's Reading Group choice, and following a late surge, Bleak House has romped home.
(9) Welbeck romps down the inside-left channel but slices a poor shot high into the stands.
(10) Running against the US's Tyson Gay, who has disappointed in these Games, you had the feeling that Blake was never going to allow his friend and training partner anything other than a victory romp to the line.
(11) A romp through the kinky silliness that’ll be marketed at our grown grandchildren, their poor glazed eyes consensually replaced with tiny computers.
(12) Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
(13) Iam a bit worried I might be a massive racist because last week at a preview screening* I laughed like a hallucinating pig several times during Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , a preposterous cartoon romp through the laugh-a-minute world of slavery.
(14) Southampton’s Sadio Mané joins treble of doubles in 6-0 romp at MK Dons Read more Asamoah, selected ahead of Carlisle’s leading goalscorer Jabo Ibehre, had gone close to converting Alex McQueen’s low cross as his side responded to their manager’s call for greater intent.
(15) He has also romped as Casanova , probed as DI Carlisle in the TV musical-drama Blackpool , theorised as cerebral scientist Arthur Eddington in Einstein And Eddington (stick a pair of specs on him and he's as dull as the next man), played Hamlet quite beautifully (awkward and paranoid, yet graceful) and appeared in a number of none-too-impressive movies.
(16) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
(17) From finally breaking his two year drought in the friendly against Germany (which lest we forget came on the back of a worryingly easy romp of a win for Belgium in the first friendly of this five game sequence), Altidore's goals turned out to be worth 7 of the 9 points the US amassed in their surge to the top of the standings.
(18) Smith romped home with an 11% swing and immediately, national Liberal poll ratings almost doubled.
(19) It's not something that has been done before: even Whedon opted for a breezy romp which used humour to paper over the preposterous logic cracks in his bombastic superhero ensemble.
(20) Yet Klopp still managed to be a breath of fresh air, a ball of pent-up fury when Liverpool were wayward in the early exchanges, a beaming, tracksuited, slightly messy creator of happiness and fun when they romped away with the points thanks to late goals from Coutinho and Benteke.