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Definition 2024

See also: pat down

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...

patting somebody's clothes

French: fouille corporelle f, fouille à corps f, (less thoroughly) palpation de sécurité f