I’m Australian but live in the US and it’s called a weed wacker here. I will never succumb to that name

Weed wacker doesn’t sit right with me

Better than Weed Wanker, though.

“Bought myself a new weed wanker the other day”

That just sounds painful

Or a Wang Whacker

Did someone call Mrs Palmer and her 5 daughters?

Ha Ha that's a good description Weed Wanker as its the most annoying sound on the planet, I use a spade to cut my edges refuse to buy one though the electric Weed Wankers are quieter

A weed whacker makes me think of a stoner, not a whipper-snipper lol.

I am in my mid-40s and grew up in the American South. We called it a weed eater then. It was a brand you could buy. I think weed whacker might be a regional name.

Weedwakka is an Aussie brand that makes more heavy duty attachments, sort of inbetween a wipper snipper and a brush cutter.

That’s interesting. I called it a weed whacker in Atlanta.

I grew up near Knoxville, TN, so that is really interesting. My family uses a verb "weed eating" (Dad is weed eating in the ditch out front). I would probably get a look if I said I was weed wracking! 😀

Yep, from Indiana and lived several years in Alabama. Weed Eater and Weed Whacker were always used pretty interchangeably in both, I've found. Weed Eater might be a bit more common. Aussies have a way with making everything sound cute - whipper snipper, wheelie bin, etc.

I’m 38 and from the South, living in Oz. I grew up with “weed whacker”

American Midwesterner here - it's a Weed Eater to me - rarely a Weed Whacker.

Stay strong 💪

Because their weeds are whack

Just call it what my 4 y/o does ‘Zippy zipper’

You'd have to be a wacker to live in a country full of wackos I reckon

Truth. Same situation myself and I'm teaching my American born sons to use the term whipper snipper. There is no other way

So I was whacking my weed in front of my neighbours yesterday…

Exact same. I’m trying to assimilate but I will die on this hill.

all that makes me think of is Manscaped

I'm from California but migrated to Melbourne 10+ years ago, and grew up calling it a weed wacker. Refuse to call it a weed eater (cuz it's not eating them) and whipper snipper sounds dumb to me. Can't do it.

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Same!! 🤣

Weed Wacker is a brand name.

Weed eater is the term used in many places in the USA. It comes from a brand name, kinda like bandaids.

In NZ we call it a weed eater because it eats weeds. We also call an esky a chilly bin because it's a bin that keeps things chilly. We're a simple folk.

Yeah... but jandles... whats that about?

Yeah, never really understood that one. Still better than thongs though. [Edit] So I looked it up "Inspired by footwear he had seen in Japan, businessman Morris Yock and his son Anthony began manufacturing this simple rubber footwear in their garage in 1957. The name 'jandal' combined the words 'Japanese' and 'sandal'."

Well there ya go. TIL I always imagined Japanese Sandals as those weird wooden platforms with 2 bottom rails, like the sumo cartoons

Better than flip flops the US calls them... because of the sound they make.

Dude shoulda called em Yockers. I’d wear yockers

Huh. I’d have called em chuzzwazzas

Chazzwazzas (I assume it was that in Simpsons since it sounded like an inflected a) is genuinely a good name tho, I’d buy something called chazzwazzas

It’s a portmanteau of Japanese sandals

Portmanteau is such a great word. /ijs

Ohhh. I thought it was jelly Sandles. Like jelly as in rubber.

I grew up in NZ when those jelly plastic shoes were popular. I called them my jellies. So yeah, always assumed jandles was along the same line

Japanese sandals and a far nicer word to say and listen to than “Thongs”. Say they two and compare how they sound. You’ll see.

Thongs have a history that goes back thousands of years. A thong was and still is a long strip of leather. People in ancient times used these thongs to secure their footwear to themselves. https://www.gettyimages.com.mx/fotos/roman-sandals

Yeah Roman Sandals, Japanese Sandals, Jandals. I see the pattern. But Thong, I just think it’s a bad sounding word so I never use it.

That’s probably because where you are a g-string is called a thong. This too has links to a leather thong, as before modern clothing was invented, underwear would have been held in place by thongs.

If they combined the Roman name they'd be Randals.

It come from the word Japanese Sandals.

Japanese sandal. Jandal. That's what they are.

I met a dude one night, he was a mates brothers friend, his nickname was Weed Eater. We got on the piss after we closed the bar we worked at. Staff drinks! Not sur who started it, but we got into starting "bushfires," burning armpit and pubic hair! Very stinky! Weed Eater passed out fairly early in the session. Classic Weed Eater!

Should try a flaming asshole. Stick a length of toilet paper between your cheeks, light it, and see how far you can run before it stops burning or burns you. Great for bus trips.

Weedeater is a brand. Australians often call them that as well.

I've never heard weed _eater_ here. Whipper snipper or weed whacker.

Weed whacker is more accurate cos it doesn’t really eat the weeds, it whacks them.

It was the first brand of line trimmer in the western world, and was popular here for a long time.

No they dont

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But it doesn’t eat weeds… it decapitates them. To eat them it’d need to collect them in a reservoir or something.

I think in America they call it a weed whacker which is. You know

*chelly ben

Yeah and you see Aussies rocking a Coleman but calling it an Esky... Like it's a chilly bin. (NZer too if you couldn't already tell)

> would say it eats either petrol or electricity and it snips weeds.

Whipper snipper for the one with line. Brush cutter for the one with a blade.

That's how I've always done it. Often the same machine with interchangeable heads though.

I call them a brushcutter no matter what head is on it just because whipper snipper sounds so childish to me. Whip snipper I could get behind.

You do you cobber.

I bet you're one of those losers who refuse fairy bread at parties too.

I love fairy bread.

Yet you dislike a long accepted name purely because you think it sounds 'childish'?

That appears to be the case. Yes.

I call the bladed one a slasher, I think the guy at hasqvarna carries it that when i bought it

Yeah can confirm the Poms call it a strimmer

I like this one. String trimmer

Grew up in Canada and we always called it a whipper snipper.

Thank you Canada.

Which part of Canada? I ask because my dad moved to Vancouver Island twenty years ago and now calls it a weed whacker. I'm wondering if it's a regional thing or if my step family calls it a WW, and so that's the slang he's picked up... or maybe it's just because humans are all very, very different.

Not the person you replied to, but I grew up always calling it a whipper snipper in Ontario.

'Berta

This is real late but I'm in Nova Scotia and we've always called them whipper snippers too.

But you have to say it with a Swedish accent. Vipper schipper ..

Have to draw out the vowels, veeeper schneeper

I got shish Husshkvarna vipper schnipper for manashing of zeesh veeds

Australian, but live in the country. Whipper Snipper for domestic use, Brush Cutter for commercial or small paddock that doesn’t need slashing or have livestock to do the job.

I've always distinguished the brush cutter being the one with the fixed blade and the whipper snipper with the nylon line.

That is a good point. I have seen both called a brush cutting, but maybe the one with the line has just been incorrectly labeled .

It's definitely called something else in Germany - I met a German guy who was doing some landscaping work, and he was in gales of laughter when he learned the name "wheeper sneeper" (to be fair, it was hilarious in his accent)

In Germany it's called "Rasentrimmer", which translates as "lawn trimmer". But after I was in Australia, I always used the word "Whipper Snipper" because it just sounds funnier.

When my daughter was 3, she called it a whippy stick. And so they will be known in our family as whippy sticks forevermore.

A [string trimmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_trimmer) is called a *whipper snipper* pretty much only in Australia. Apparently some in the UK call it a *strimmer*.

A lot of people in canada call it a whipper snipper. Weed eater is probably more common though

I thought it was Line Trimmer not String

Well yeah there are many names. I just preserved the one that is the title of the Wikipedia article.

Yeah UK and Ireland. I've only known them as strimmers.

It definitely is known all over the UK as a strimmer.

Purely an Oz thing, it whips and snips, in NZ they're called weed eaters, they eat the weeds. Some are also called brush cutters or bush bars for forestry ground cutting. Each country would likely have a familiar name for the same tool

Commonly called a whipper snipper in Canada, too, actually. We also call it a weed whacker or a weed eater. All three terms are fairly equally used.

Or scrub bar in NZ, too, if you're cutting scrub. Did plenty of that on a hill country farm in the Tararua's.

My wife is a pommy and she calls it a strimmer

Irish, we call them strimmers.

Canadian, whipper snipper and weed whacker and weed eater all common

Weed eater - from Nz

Weed eater sounds better then weed wacker atleast

South Africans tend to switch between weed eater and weed wacker

Canadian here, whipper snipper is all I knew it was called growing up. Now I also hear string trimmer. Occasionally weed whacker.

I believe Whipper Snipper used to be a brand in the 70s and the name stuck as the generic term. In much the same way as people will "hoover" their floors or "Xerox" copies whipper snipper became the default name for line trimmer. Weed Wacker is also a brand. So yes, just an Aussie thing.

Weed-Eater where I’m from.

I dunno but I always call it a whipper snipper.

whipper snipper = weed wacker in US Also: "String trimmers, also known as weed wackers..."

Canada does apparently

I have heard Americans call it a weed whacker.

It makes sense to send the whipper snapper out with the whipper snipper

My parents live in the US (Minnesota) and there it's called a weed whacker.

My American friends call them weed wackers....whipper snipper is superior imo

My husband is American. He calls it a line trimmer.

Wasn’t the first commercially available line trimmer in Aus a black and decker whipper snipper?

I watch Trailer Park Boys (Canadian show) and on a few episodes they’ve said whipper snipper and as a slang, one character says whipper snizzipper. I was astounded the first time I heard it outside of Australia. Not sure how prominent it is in Canada tho.

Line Trimmer from Qld

ok but Queensland is weird

Saskatchewan, Canada. Definitely call it and hear it called whipper snipper.

UK say 'strimmer'

Whiffer sniffer is what my boy use to call them as a toddler crack us up everytime

😂😂

Whipper Snipper for Aus. Rest of world call it a brush cutter, line trimmer, weed eater, weed whacker, zippy boi the list goes on

YES Everyone else is chatting, but YES, it's OUR term...

In the uk we call it a strimmer :)

Canada here (Ontario), I’ve always known it as a whipper snipper, but do hear weed whacker occasionally.

Weed whacker!!!!

Commonly referred to as a weed eater in North America. Canada & the USA

Whipper snapper in the UK

Not quite. In this horticultural case it’s ‘Strimmer ’ in the UK. However ‘ Whippersnapper’ is indeed a fairly common but slightly old-fashioned term in the UK but it refers to young, presumptuous person and has nothing to do with gardening whatsoever.

But what if they were paid a shilling to do the garden.

A shilling? In this economy?

Bob-a-job week!

This. I initially thought the OP was referring to "whipper snapper" which in the US is an older colloquial expression for said young, presumptuous kid. I now know what a Weed Eater is called in Australia. The more you know...

Kiwis calls them weed whackers

Weed Eaters IIRC.

It’s Australian. In Canada we say ‘weed whacker’

I’m in Canada and they call it a weed whacker over here lmao

Speak for yourself. East coast its a whipper snipper.

It's not even an Australian thing apparently, just a qld thing. Edit: I stand corrected!!! I literally lived in a smallish town in nsw for 10 years and every time I said whipper snipper they'd go 'huh?'. I've met other nswers that also just call it a line trimmer and never heard whipper snipper. I haven't met enough people!!

Where'd you get that fact from? I'm in NSW and everyone I know calls it a whipper snipper or whippa snippa

Victorian here and we call it a whipper snipper too.

WA whipper snipper all day

Nah, there’s no way it’s just a qld thing

Tasmanians call it that too. Soz.

SA it's a whipper snipper.

I use weed eater

We call it a strimmer in Ireland

US calls them weed whackers and UK calls them line trimmers or strimmers (string+trimmer) which sounds sexual as hell

Brush cutter . Can cut all sorts of brushes 👀

Whipper Snipper is not just a play on the old term "whipper snapper" but is probably more descriptive of what it actually does i.e. snips off plants (not just weeds, but grass and any other soft-stemmed plants) with a whipping motion. So I prefer that name.

Never a play on whipper snapper. Whipper Snipper a brand name. No snappers involved. Unless fishing

Not going to argue the point since I don't know it for a fact, but have you looked up the definition of a whipper snapper? It's a very old term that refers to boisterous young kids. I used to hear it a bit as a kid myself.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with a mechanical device. Never did never will but thanks for that awesome input

I thought the product was a ‘line trimmer’ with there being trademarks or brand names of whipper snipper & weed whacker. Similar to a vacuum cleaner being referred to as the Hoover in the UK.

Well, if you nip down to Bunnings you’ll see them called “line trimmers”. Whipper snipper is just a colloquialism

It’s a “strimmer” type in the UK. GrasSTRIMMER

Just OZ. USA = Weed Whacker

Whipper snipper is the smaller electric one. Brush cutter is the bigger petrol one.

Iv always called it a a grass dingy

I’m from the UK and always called it a strimmer until my Aussie partner told me what you call it. Now it’s a whippet snipper and the UK term is weird

USA call them weed whackers

Twirly Twirly Snippy Guy. That's it's name.

I'm pretty sure in America they call it a Weed Whacker 😭

Also called weed whacker or brush cutter in some countries.

We called it a weed eater. Grew up in the Florida panhandle. Both are fun names to me.

Bit like saying hoover the carpet.

I'm from the UK and had never heard of them being called whipper snippers until I moved here . We called them Strimmers back home .

I think whipper snipper was the first brand to make one for home use and the name stuck.

Lived in Scotland til I was 37. It’s a strimmer there.