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