patdown

See also: pat down

English

Etymology

pat +‎ down

Noun

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

patting somebody's clothes

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

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