I think it's sort of like Kleenex tissue. Kleenex is a name brand, not a description of an item. But since they were the first and the only one around at one time we often ask for a Kleenex instead of a tissue. Weed Eater was a brand of 'weed wacker'. I think they were the first to show us one long ago with the string trimmer and all. So today we often use weed eater to describe the thing.  When a company gets their name to be what everyone calls an item, they've got the corner on the market when it gets to that point.

14 hours ago, islandbass said:

Sam: “Would you like a coke?

Steve: “Sure!”

Sam: “What kind?”

Steve: “7up.”

Sam: “Okay. Here you go.”

Brother, I had this conversation!

Weed wacker.  In the old days we used a pair of grass trimming shears for tight places, and swung a grass whip on steep inclines. 

Marital aid

Weed Eater

Love it when a piece of gravel flies into your face!

For the less informed of said yard tool: "A circumcision waiting to happen".

On 6/5/2021 at 6:40 PM, Raider Nation Fisher said:

Since I've spent the last 6 hours running one of these out the yard. I'm curious what yall call one of these, in yalls area. Down here in Bama I've always heard them called a Weedeater. So what's the name in Yalls areas???

Looks like a weedeater to me. What else would you call it? ??‍♂️

On 6/6/2021 at 3:37 AM, islandbass said:

There was a time back home where soda pop was called Coke. A conversation could go like this:

Sam: “Would you like a coke?

Steve: “Sure!”

Sam: “What kind?”

Steve: “7up.”

Sam: “Okay. Here you go.”

 

I kid you not ??

 

still happens in TN today

On 6/6/2021 at 4:40 AM, huZZah said:

That time was yesterday...in the south everything’s a coke. 

You gotta be kidding me! That means I can no longer call this an “only in Guam ?? thing, lol”

I usually call them a string of expletives when I've pulled for the hundredth time and it still hasn't started. 

 

There's something so satisfying about hammer throwing a finicky weedeater, except when you realize now a new one has to be purchased ?‍♂️

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

There's something so satisfying about hammer throwing a finicky weedeater, except when you realize now a new one has to be purchased ?‍♂️

 We call them weedeaters in my part of the woods, too.  But the verb form is usually weed- whack, as in, "I weedwhacked the yard with the weedeater."

 

The hammer throw is mighty satisfying.  The last thing I launched was a Humminbird portable fish finder.  It is now resting comfortably on the bottom of Lake Poutrincourt, near the mouth of the Normandin River, in Quebec.

Lazy

Didn’t finish the job and left the tool outside without putting it away!

15 hours ago, BassNJake said:

still happens in TN today

And a peanut may be added to the “coke” or “dope” 

Before I scrolled down, I would have called it a "fence."  But the thingamajig at the bottom, I call a weed wacker or string trimmer.  Usually, it's the former.

17 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I usually call them a string of expletives when I've pulled for the hundredth time and it still hasn't started. 

 

Sounds like my chainsaw

On 6/5/2021 at 9:29 PM, 12poundbass said:

Weed eater 

 

How about my fellow northern folk.... snow blower or snow thrower? I call it a snow blower

 

Snow machine or a snowmobile? Snowmobile here in Michigan, but in Alaska and I believe Canada they call it a snow machine. 

It's snow machine in the UP too. I've been sternly corrected before. LoL.

2 minutes ago, Michigander said:

It's snow machine in the UP too. I've been sternly corrected before. LoL.

Snow Blower

Snowmobile - this from the state where Arctic Cat and Polaris started.

3 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Snow Blower

Snowmobile - this from the state where Arctic Cat and Polaris started.

It's snowmobile in the lower peninsula too, but up there, well, they do things their own way and I'm content to let them be. ?

2 minutes ago, Michigander said:

It's snowmobile in the lower peninsula too, but up there, well, they do things their own way and I'm content to let them be. ?

Ya - crazy Yoopers...

Snowblower and snowmobile/sled.  Get into Canada and they call them Ski Doos.

 

 

On 6/5/2021 at 5:40 PM, Raider Nation Fisher said:

So what's the name in Yalls areas???

I hear in WI they call that a pubic hair trimmer.

55 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Snowblower and snowmobile/sled.  Get into Canada and they call them Ski Doos.

 

 

I hear in WI they call that a pubic hair trimmer.

 

 

On 6/5/2021 at 3:47 PM, MN Fisher said:

'Weed Wacker'.

That's what I have always heard them called, It wacks/slices weeds it does not "eat" them

4 hours ago, Michigander said:

Snow machine or a snowmobile?

Where I am originally from, its called a snowmobile and I continue to call them that. Where I live now its called a "snow machine" that just sounds stupid to me.

3 hours ago, Deephaven said:

I hear in WI they call that a pubic hair trimmer.

They work great, just don't get too close or you know, you might lose something......

19 hours ago, Bluegillslayer said:

 

They work great, just don't get too close or you know, you might lose something......

In Wisconsin the pubic hair is longer than the "something"