I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
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?”
From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.
Oh, I like this.
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Northeast US - weed whacker
Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.
Southern US. Weed whacker.
Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
Germany, Rasentrimmer – grass trimmer.
Or “Motorsense” - motor(ized) scythe
Stimmt! Ganz vergessen.
Oder “Fadenmäher” oder “Kantenschneider”
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
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”.
Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker
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 it’s the most fun to say
I’m pretty sure I call them weed whackers, but I’ve heard weed eater not irregularly. I’m up in the Washington area.
Weed whacker, unless I need parts or a new one, then it’s a string trimmer until I need to whack more weeds
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.
