I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.

Same.

Whipper Snipper here in Aus

Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.

I almost always use the first one, weedeater.

Whipper-Snipper (Australia)

From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.

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Alabama here. Battery and mains powered ones are generally called weed eaters.

The gas powered ones are called a string of curses that would get me banned. Usually while trying to get them to crank. There’s a reason I went electric.

American south, weed eaters

Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.

Weedeater or strimmer in NZ

Germany, Rasentrimmer – grass trimmer.

US south. Weed eater or weed whacker, but the second is much less common. It's also the name of the thing you're doing. You use the weed eater to go out weed eat the yard

Northeast US - weed whacker

Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.

SW PA, weed whacker

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".

I'm pretty sure I call them weed whackers, but I've heard weed eater not irregularly. I'm up in the Washington area.

Weed whacker, unless I need parts or a new one, then it's a string trimmer until I need to whack more weeds

Up in Canada, I've only ever heard weed whacker

Southern US. Weed whacker.

On a related note, are the reloadable plastic strings on electric trimmers intentionally designed to unravel within a few uses so you have to keep buying replacements?

decespugliatore (debusher) or tosaerba (grass shearing)

Canada, various provinces - either weed whacker or whipper-snipper.

Scott calls it a trimmer sometimes, but Scott's a dick and we hate him.

Edit: Fuck you too, Scott.

ye olde whippersnapper

Strimmers here in the UK

Western Canada. Weed whacker.

This plays in my head every time I hear the phrase “weed whacker”. It’s called a whacker, for weeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMghq58gvFo&t=106

Ours are mostly electric now and thus not annoying

New brunswick (canadian province near maine) here, it's also called a weed whacker (and sometimes weed eater)

Weedeaters, as I believe that was the trade name of the first ones

Strimmers.

Loud pieces of shit