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.
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.
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.
Same here, but almost never use trimmer. Edit: Pittsburgh here.
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Northeast US - weed whacker
Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
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”.
Germany, Rasentrimmer – grass trimmer.
Or “Motorsense” - motor(ized) scythe
Stimmt! Ganz vergessen.
Oder “Fadenmäher” oder “Kantenschneider”
Southern US. Weed whacker.
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.
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
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Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker
From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
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.
