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patdown

n. An act of patting somebody's clothes to check for concealed weapons, etc.

Usage examples of "patdown".

Even Brigadier Hilda Morrisey couldn’t pass until she parked her car and went through a metal detector, a patdown and a Bureau cadet with a sniffer like a portable vacuum cleaner to make sure there were no traces of banned chemicals on her person.

Harry had administered a quick patdown, checking for obvious weapons, before giving his paying passenger the spray.

When they had finished with the metal detectors and the patdowns and the sniffers she took him aside.