They are officially known as string trimmers. Where are you geographically and what do you call them?
I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
Same.
New England, weed whackers here too.
Midwest, weed whacker here as well.
Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.
I almost always use the first one, weedeater.
My dad liked to use Weedeater as a sort of verb. To Weedeap. So he'd love to say he was going outside to weedeap the knee deep weeds.
Same here, but almost never use trimmer. Edit: Pittsburgh here.
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Whipper Snipper here in Aus
Can't tell if you're taking the piss haha.
It's legit.
Now you listen here young whipper snipper! Why, in my day....
Yup. Australian here. Is what we call em.
That's the predominant one in Canada too, at least in my experience.
Goes with a Chipper Shredder (Woodchipper), sure there's probably other things named the same way.
I'm trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say "string trimmer". "you mean weed eater?"
Whipper-Snipper (Australia)
Canada too. Also weed eater, even though that's a brand name
That's what we call our ankle-biters in the part of Canada I grew up in ^/s
From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.
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Alabama here. Battery and mains powered ones are generally called weed eaters.
The gas powered ones are called a string of curses that would get me banned. Usually while trying to get them to crank. There’s a reason I went electric.
American south, weed eaters
Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.
Weedeater or strimmer in NZ
I don't think I've ever heard strimmer, though it does seem to be a thing when I search it up. I would say Weed eater, weed whacker, or line trimmer.
Strimmer out here in Bermuda too
Northeast US - weed whacker
US south. Weed eater or weed whacker, but the second is much less common. It's also the name of the thing you're doing. You use the weed eater to go out weed eat the yard
Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
I'm pretty sure I call them weed whackers, but I've heard weed eater not irregularly. I'm up in the Washington area.
I feel like weed Whacker/Eater are brands like Kleenex. In my head it is a string trimmer.
I usually say "I'm going to trim the yard".
SW PA, weed whacker
Up in Canada, I've only ever heard weed whacker
Weed whacker, unless I need parts or a new one, then it's a string trimmer until I need to whack more weeds
On a related note, are the reloadable plastic strings on electric trimmers intentionally designed to unravel within a few uses so you have to keep buying replacements?
They usually only dispense when you tap them on the ground.
Just don’t do that
Some of them are automatic, in that they use the deceleration from letting off the trigger to let out more string. So if you have one of those ones and are constantly turning it on and off in short spurts, it would eat up string pretty fast. Best to do a swath and only let off when you want more string or are completely done. The automatic ones tend to be more intended for heavy duty use, rather than single yard use.
Southern US. Weed whacker.
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
Western Canada. Weed whacker.
Weedeaters, as I believe that was the trade name of the first ones
ye olde whippersnapper
This plays in my head every time I hear the phrase “weed whacker”. It’s called a whacker, for weeds.
Strimmers here in the UK
Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying
New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it's also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)
Strimmers.
Dallas TX. We call it a trimmer. In Spanglish, many people call it a wira which is informal slang to pronounce "weed eater".
Canada, various provinces - either weed whacker or whipper-snipper.
Scott calls it a trimmer sometimes, but Scott's a dick and we hate him.
Edit: Fuck you too, Scott.
Loud pieces of shit