From Hebrew שְׁמוֹנֶה (shmonе, “eight”), referring to 8:00 a.m. when the cells were searched each morning in the Odessa prison prior to the
communist revolution.
(noun) frisk, shakedown, raid, body search, search
(verb) to search, to search, to turn
upside down, to search, to search, to search, to search, to search, to turn
upside down