Loud pieces of shit

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

Same.

Whipper-Snipper (Australia)

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

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Whipper Snipper here in Aus

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.

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

I almost always use the first one, weedeater.

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

American south, weed eaters

Weedeater or strimmer in NZ

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

Germany, Rasentrimmer – grass trimmer.

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".

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

SW PA, weed whacker

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

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

Southern US. Weed whacker.

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.

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?

decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)

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

Strimmers.

ye olde whippersnapper

Western Canada. Weed whacker.

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

Strimmers here in the UK

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

Dallas TX. We call it a trimmer. In Spanglish, many people call it a wira which is informal slang to pronounce "weed eater".