weed-whacker

1. 1.

   a hand tool for removing weeds

   Synonymsweeder

   Broaderhand tool

Questions about weed-whacker

What does weed-whacker mean?

weed-whacker means "a hand tool for removing weeds".

How many syllables are in weed-whacker?

weed-whacker has 3 syllables and divides as weed--whac-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for weed-whacker?

Close synonyms include weeder. 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.