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#* {{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=Yoram Wind; Colin Crook; Robert E. Gunther|title=The power of impossible thinking |
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|passage=To avoid such charges, airline screeners moved to random processes that led to '''patdowns''' of congressional representatives and mild-mannered elderly women...}} |
|passage=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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Latest revision as of 20:21, 17 May 2024
See also: pat down
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
patdown (plural patdowns)
- (US, informal) 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...
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Translations[edit]
patting somebody's clothes
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