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- noun Plural form of
patdown .
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Examples
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Thorough physical patdowns and secondary hand luggage screening pre-board, no leaving your seat or electronics or putting anything on your lap during the final hour of flight, and so on.
Boing Boing 2009
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Thorough physical patdowns and secondary hand luggage screening pre-board, no leaving your seat or electronics or putting anything on your lap during the final hour of flight, and so on.
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Last November, when the scan-or-be-groped policy was still new, a TSA agent openly admitted that the whole point of the patdowns is to be so humiliating and unpleasant, passengers will opt for the scanners instead.
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Interesting.8.24pm: The debate about the Patriot Act burbles on, and turns into a discussion about TSA patdowns – this a reference to airport security, which gets a lot of conservatives bothered.
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The ACLU database of passenger complaints about patdowns makes for sickening reading:Joe in New Mexico reported, The method used to search my body was on par with a sexual massage by a stranger of the same sex.
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We've also been subjected to invasive patdowns and whole-body scans of our persons and seizures of our electronic devices in the nation's airports.
John W. Whitehead: The Stop Online Piracy Act: Yet Another Stealth Maneuver to Control the Internet John W. Whitehead 2011
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The fervor over the TSA patdowns seemingly reached a fever pitch over Thanksgiving, when protests occurred at airports across the country and angry passengers spoke out against the new procedures.
Justice For Woman Who Sued TSA Over Patdown? Kate Auletta 2011
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DHS prefers to spend their money on airport Full-Body Scanners, doing patdowns of 80-year-old grannies and 2-year-old toddlers, and dividing 250-year-old towns along the US Canada border to reinforcing the border protection along our Mexican border.
Natl. Poll: More favor than oppose Arizona immigration law 2010
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The fervor over the TSA patdowns seemingly reached a fever pitch over Thanksgiving, when protests occurred at airports across the country and angry passengers spoke out against the new procedures.
Justice For Woman Who Sued TSA Over Patdown? Kate Auletta 2011
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"Is it OK for Muslim Americans to get more intensive patdowns when they go through airports?" asks Wolf Bltzer.
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