Usually means: Search for concealed items manually.
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  1. pat down: Merriam-Webster
  2. pat-down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pat-down: Wordnik
  4. pat down: Wiktionary
  5. pat-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. pat-down, pat down: Dictionary.com
  7. pat down: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pat down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pat down: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pat down)

▸ verb:  (US, informal, transitive) To frisk; to check someone's body for concealed items, especially weapons.

Similar:
pad down, rub down, shake over, wand, frisk, body-check, patrol, befinger, probe, feel for, more...

Opposite:
frisk, search, inspect, scan

Adjectives:
underarm, cast-off, strikebreaking, scrub, knockout, collect, cast, draft, put up, pull-out, clean

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Similar:
pad down, rub down, shake over, wand, frisk, body-check, patrol, befinger, probe, feel for, more...

Opposite:
frisk, search, inspect, scan

Adjectives:
underarm, cast-off, strikebreaking, scrub, knockout, collect, cast, draft, put up, pull-out, clean



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