单词 | pat-down |
释义 | pat-downn. chiefly North American (originally U.S.). A search for items concealed about a person, made by patting the clothing. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching a person or his clothes frisk1789 frisking1913 pat-down1964 spin1970 1964 Calif. Appellate Rep. 2nd Ser. 222 345 The officer, in making a cursory search or ‘pat down’ of King for weapons, found two shotgun shells in his pocket. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Feb. b2 Judge Harold Leventhal..asked the government to ascertain whether the search was a reasonable patdown for weapons. 1986 D. Smith in Polit. Sci. Q. 101 647 To increase such activities as street stops for questioning and pat-down. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 38 Had my instructors given me a pat-down before class they might have learned my secret. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1964 |
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