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