slip-joint pliers

1. 1.

   pliers with a joint adjustable to two positions in order to increase the opening of the jaws

   Broaderpliers

   plural

Questions about slip-joint pliers

What does slip-joint pliers mean?

slip-joint pliers means "pliers with a joint adjustable to two positions in order to increase the opening of the jaws".

Is slip-joint pliers a common word?

slip-joint pliers is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.