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