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Frisking
Act of searching a person's outer clothing to detect concealed objects / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about manual screening. For frisking for radiation, see Radiation Portal Monitor.
Frisking (also called a patdown or pat down) is a search of a person's outer clothing wherein a person runs their hands along the outer garments of another to detect any concealed weapons or objects.
![]() | The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (November 2014) |
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