hedge clippers

See also: hedge-clippers

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Noun

hedge clippers pl (plural only)

  1. Synonym of hedge trimmer.
    • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
      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:
      At last the battery cover snapped down. Howard strode briskly back through the living room with the hedge-clippers held at port arms.
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