I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
Western Canada. Weed whacker.
Northeast US - 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.
Strimmers.
New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it’s also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
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”.
Whipper Snipper here in Aus
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.
Now you listen here young whipper snipper! Why, in my day…
Yup. Australian here. Is what we call em.
Can’t tell if you’re taking the piss haha.
It’s legit.
I’m trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say “string trimmer”. “you mean weed eater?”
Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker
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.
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.
Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
This plays in my head every time I hear the phrase “weed whacker”. It’s called a whacker, for weeds.
Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying
