I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
Weed eater
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 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.
American south, weed eaters
Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.
I almost always use the first one, weedeater.
Same here, but almost never use trimmer. Edit: Pittsburgh here.
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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)
That’s what we call our ankle-biters in the part of Canada I grew up in ^/s
Canada too. Also weed eater, even that’s a brand name
ye olde whippersnapper
I feel like weed Wacker/Eater are brands like Kleenex. In my head it is a string trimmer.
I usually say “I’m going to trim the yard”.
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.
Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying
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
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
If this were Facebook I would say this is a bot harvesting user locations for advertising profiles…
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.
Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.
