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  • noun UK string trimmer

Etymologies

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From a trademark, presumably Blend of string and trimmer.

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Examples

  • Where would you rather see your cops …. feeling a burglars collar or wielding a strimmer on some very persistant weeds? on May 7, 2009 at 8: 56 pm Metcountymounty

    You Couldn’t Make It Up « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • If I hate my mower, I reserve special hatred for the weed-whacker, the strimmer, with its little nylon line that snaps every two minutes, requiring disassembly and reassembly of the device.

    I can’t mow the lawn, love, it’s a site of special scientific interest « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • As someone far wittier than me put it: "and as the garden strimmer of fate runs over the electricity cable of life ... we say farewell Humphrey Lyttleton".

    Cool Goole No 1 Peter Ashley 2008

  • Anyhow, the grass/jungle was knee high so I got the strimmer out and started hacking my way to the greenhouse.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Spinningfishwife 2009

  • Anyhow, the grass/jungle was knee high so I got the strimmer out and started hacking my way to the greenhouse.

    Gardening. Spinningfishwife 2009

  • I've just had a daymare of roaming thru Thetford forest with a petrol driven strimmer!

    I want to be..... a tree! 2008

  • Here are three scenarios which could happen assuming they have strimmers and cars in Norfolk, something that's far from certain and at which you might reasonably expect the police to turn up: 1. Your garden shed is broken into after 5.00pm on a Friday and a strimmer is stolen.

    The Policeman's Blog 2006

  • That explains why I dropped my food on the kitchen floor (face down of course) twice yesterday, and why I trapped my finger when I pulled the chair closer to the table this morning, and why I head-butted the strimmer in the storage cupboard earlier this afternoon!

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2001

  • Meanwhile, that much petrol will keep a two-stroke strimmer running for so long that your neighbour will shoot you before you use it all up.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Legs mangled in the incident were trickier to claim for, but in the end as any upstanding citizen would I took the easy route and loosened a couple of paving stones and waited for the council hedge strimmer to come along.. bit messy but well worth it now the cheque's banked !

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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