tongs

1. 1.

   any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below

   Synonymspair of tongs

   Broaderdevice

   Narrowerfire tongsice tongs

   plural

Other forms of tongs

plural

tongses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tongs

What does tongs mean?

tongs means "any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below".

How many syllables are in tongs?

tongs has 1 syllable: tongs. In IPA it is /ˈtɑŋz/.

What is another word for tongs?

Close synonyms include pair of tongs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tongs a common word?

tongs is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.