I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
This plays in my head every time I hear the phrase “weed whacker”. It’s called a whacker, for weeds.
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.
Hey! Pittsburgh! The only city I actually enjoyed visiting!
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.
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
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
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
SW PA, weed whacker
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
ye olde whippersnapper
I’m in a Great Lake State and we call it a “weed whacker”. Really sent the “wh” sound like Hank Hill for comic effect.
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”.
Weed eater
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.
Western Canada. Weed whacker.
