Frisk
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Frisk can refer to different things including:
- Frisking is where a police officer or other law enforcement agent runs his or her hands along the outer garments to detect any concealed weapons or other contraband;
- Frisk is a surname of Swedish origin, one of many Swedish army names originally given to soldiers to make their names more distinctive;
- Anders Frisk, former football referee.
- Frisk (breath mints) is a brand of breath mints manufactured by the Perfetti Van Melle company;[1][2]
- Frisk (novel), a 1991 novel (ISBN 0-8021-3289-8) by gay author Dennis Cooper. It is the second in Cooper's five-book "George Miles cycle." The novel focuses on a gay serial killer;
- Frisk (film), the title of the 1995 film adaptation of the novel. Directed by Todd Verow and starring Michael Gunther and Craig Chester, the film is part of the New Queer Cinema genre;
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Frisk mints are exported around the world and have the No. 1 market share in Japan.
- ^ Endō Shōzo, a Japanese comedian best known from his work in the Coq_au_Rico (kombi) and Japanese television programs, is notorious for cooking with Frisk, much to the disdain of his fellow castmates. See Gaki no Tsukai Absolutely Tasty Series.