I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
Northeast US - weed whacker
Southern US. 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.
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
Western Canada. Weed whacker.
Strimmers.
New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it’s also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)
Strimmers here in the UK
Weed eater
Canada, various provinces - either weed whacker or whipper-snipper.
Scott calls it a trimmer sometimes, but Scott’s a dick and we hate him.
Dallas TX. We call it a trimmer. In Spanglish, many people call it a wira which is informal slang to pronounce “weed eater”.
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
Loud pieces of shit
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.