patdown
See also: pat down
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
patdown (plural patdowns)
- An act of patting somebody's clothes to check for concealed weapons, etc.
- 2006, Yoram Wind, Colin Crook, Robert E. Gunther, The power of impossible thinking:
- To avoid such charges, airline screeners moved to random processes that led to patdowns of congressional representatives and mild-mannered elderly women...
Translations edit
patting somebody's clothes
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