Barely examined? (5-8)
I believe the answer is:
strip-searched
'barely examined?' is the definition.
(examined while naked or bare)
'barely examined?' is the wordplay.
'barely' becomes 'strip' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'examined?' becomes 'searched' (searching is a kind of examining).
'strip'+'searched'='STRIP-SEARCHED'
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