hedge clippers

alternative hedge-clippers

1. pluralplural onlySynonym of hedge trimmer.

   At last the battery cover snapped down. Howard strode briskly back through the living room with the hedge-clippers held at port arms.

   1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

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   Our activities halted when any of the neighbors appeared, and once I saw Miss Maudie Atkinson staring across the street at us, her hedge clippers poised in midair.

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

   Officer O'Bannion began to have a terrible yet weirdly plausible idea: that this strange little man had killed his wife with a pair of hedge-clippers and then somehow dissolved her body with drain-cleaner

   1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

   Synonyms: hedge trimmer