Western Canada. Weed whacker.
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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.
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?"
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.
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
If this were Facebook I would say this is a bot harvesting user locations for advertising profiles...
Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.
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.
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
American south, weed eaters
Northeast US - weed whacker
Germany, Rasentrimmer β grass trimmer.
Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
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
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
Up in Canada, I've only ever heard weed whacker
Southern US. Weed whacker.
SW PA, weed whacker
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".
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 donβt do that
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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.
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.
New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it's also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
ye olde whippersnapper
Weed eater
Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying
Strimmers.
Weedeaters, as I believe that was the trade name of the first ones
Strimmers here in the UK
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