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I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.

Same.

[-] user_name@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

New England, weed whackers here too.

[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Midwest, weed whacker here as well.

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago

Whipper Snipper here in Aus

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

Can't tell if you're taking the piss haha.

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's legit.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Now you listen here young whipper snipper! Why, in my day....

Yup. Australian here. Is what we call em.

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say "string trimmer". "you mean weed eater?"

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.

I almost always use the first one, weedeater.

[-] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] EbenezerScrew@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Same here, but almost never use trimmer. Edit: Pittsburgh here.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hey! Pittsburgh! The only city I actually enjoyed visiting!

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago

From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.

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[-] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Whipper-Snipper (Australia)

[-] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Canada too. Also weed eater, even though that's a brand name

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's what we call our ankle-biters in the part of Canada I grew up in ^/s

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

If this were Facebook I would say this is a bot harvesting user locations for advertising profiles...

[-] Matt@lemdro.id 12 points 3 weeks ago

Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.

[-] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 10 points 3 weeks ago

Weedeater or strimmer in NZ

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Strimmer out here in Bermuda too

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

American south, weed eaters

[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Northeast US - weed whacker

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Germany, Rasentrimmer – grass trimmer.

[-] ChrissieWF@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago

Or "Motorsense" - motor(ized) scythe

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[-] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm pretty sure I call them weed whackers, but I've heard weed eater not irregularly. I'm up in the Washington area.

[-] WaffleStomper@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

SW PA, weed whacker

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago
[-] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Plus it’s the most fun to say

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Up in Canada, I've only ever heard weed whacker

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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".

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

Southern US. Weed whacker.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Weed whacker, unless I need parts or a new one, then it's a string trimmer until I need to whack more weeds

[-] chobeat@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)

[-] scytale@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

They usually only dispense when you tap them on the ground.

Just don’t do that

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[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

ye olde whippersnapper

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it's also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Codandchips@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Strimmers here in the UK

[-] masto@lemmy.masto.community 2 points 3 weeks ago

This plays in my head every time I hear the phrase “weed whacker”. It’s called a whacker, for weeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMghq58gvFo&t=106

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Western Canada. Weed whacker.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Weedeaters, as I believe that was the trade name of the first ones

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