Western Canada. Weed whacker.
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Northeast US - weed whacker
Southern US. Weed whacker.
Whipper Snipper here in Aus
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.
Now you listen here young whipper snipper! Why, in my day....
Yup. Australian here. Is what we call em.
Can't tell if you're taking the piss haha.
It's legit.
I'm trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say "string trimmer". "you mean weed eater?"
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.
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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".
Whipper-Snipper (Australia)
That's what we call our ankle-biters in the part of Canada I grew up in ^/s
Canada too. Also weed eater, even though that's a brand name
Up in Canada, I've only ever heard weed whacker
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Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.
New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it's also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)
I'm in a Great Lake State and we call it a "weed whacker". Really send the "wh" sound like Hank Hill for comic effect.
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. Thereβs a reason I went electric.
Canada, various provinces - either weed whacker or whipper-snipper.
Scott calls it a trimmer sometimes, but Scott's a dick and we hate him.
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
Strimmers.
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.
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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 whacker, unless I need parts or a new one, then it's a string trimmer until I need to whack more weeds
Germany, Rasentrimmer β grass trimmer.
American south, weed eaters
weed whacker
This is the one I'm sticking with, especially since I've got non-string attachments for mine - little plastic blades that can cut down denser foliage and woody growth the string has a hard time with. At that point, it's not a string trimmer anymore.
Plus itβs the most fun to say
ye olde whippersnapper
This plays in my head every time I hear the phrase βweed whackerβ. Itβs called a whacker, for weeds.
Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying
Strimmers here in the UK
I'm pretty sure I call them weed whackers, but I've heard weed eater not irregularly. I'm up in the Washington area.
SW PA, weed whacker
Weed eater
Dallas TX. We call it a trimmer. In Spanglish, many people call it a wira which is informal slang to pronounce "weed eater".
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 donβt do that
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