patdown

See also: pat down

English

Etymology

Deverbal from pat down.

Noun

patdown (plural patdowns)

  1. (US, informal) An act of patting somebody's clothes to check for concealed weapons, etc.
    Synonyms: frisk, frisking
    • 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...

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