thinning shears

1. 1.

   shears with one serrate blade; used for thinning hair

   Broadershears

   plural

Questions about thinning shears

What does thinning shears mean?

thinning shears means "shears with one serrate blade; used for thinning hair".

Is thinning shears a common word?

thinning shears 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.