They are officially known as string trimmers. Where are you geographically and what do you call them?

New England, weed whackers here too.

Can’t tell if you’re taking the piss haha.

Now you listen here young whipper snipper! Why, in my day…

Yup. Australian here. Is what we call em.

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.

I’m trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say “string trimmer”. “you mean weed eater?”

My dad liked to use Weedeater as a sort of verb. To Weedeap. So he’d love to say he was going outside to weedeap the knee deep weeds.

Same here, but almost never use trimmer. Edit: Pittsburgh here.

Oh, I like this.

Canada too. Also weed eater, even though that’s a brand name

That’s what we call our ankle-biters in the part of Canada I grew up in ^/s

I don’t think I’ve ever heard strimmer, though it does seem to be a thing when I search it up. I would say Weed eater, weed whacker, or line trimmer.

Or “Motorsense” - motor(ized) scythe

This is the one I’m sticking with, especially since I’ve got non-string attachments for mine - little plastic blades that can cut down denser foliage and woody growth the string has a hard time with. At that point, it’s not a string trimmer anymore.