Catchword: puffer machine

Filed under: English

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Some passengers flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport will feel puffs of air scanning them for explosives as part of a test program that started yesterday. A trace portal system, referred to as a “puffer machine,” was set up at the security checkpoint for BWI’s Concourse D.

Article or document title:
“Airports try new bomb-detection device” (URL)

Author:
Marguerite Higgins

Article, document, publication, web site:
Washington Times

Date of publication:
Feb. 9, 2005

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