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patdowns

patdowns is the plural of patdown.

Meaning of patdown

Noun

patdown (plural patdowns)

  1. (US, informal) An act of patting somebody's clothes to check for concealed weapons, etc.
    • To avoid such charges, airline screeners moved to random processes that led to patdowns of congressional representatives and mild-mannered elderly women...2006, Yoram Wind, Colin Crook, Robert E. Gunther, The power of impossible thinking
    Synonyms:
    frisk, frisking

Questions about patdowns

What is patdowns the plural of?
Patdowns is the plural of patdown.

Words near patdowns in the dictionary

  1. patchworky
  2. patchwriting
  3. patchy
  4. patd.
  5. patdown
  6. patdowns
  7. pate
  8. pate feuilletee
  9. pateamine
  10. pated
  11. patefaction

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