I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
Western Canada. 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.
Northeast US - weed whacker
Southern US. Weed whacker.
New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it’s also called a weed whacker (and sometimes 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
decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)
Strimmers here in the UK
Weed eater
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”.
ye olde whippersnapper
Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker
