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hedge clippers

hedge clippers noun: synonym of hedge trimmer.

hedge clippers: synonym of hedge trimmer
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Noun

hedge clippers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Synonym of hedge trimmer.
    • 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-cleaner1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
    Synonyms:
    hedge trimmer

Synonyms of hedge clippers

Forms of hedge clippers

alternative formhedge-clippers

Questions about hedge clippers

What does hedge clippers mean?
Hedge clippers means synonym of hedge trimmer.
What part of speech is hedge clippers?
Hedge clippers is a noun.

Words near hedge clippers in the dictionary

  1. hedge around
  2. hedge bindweed
  3. hedge bindweeds
  4. hedge cacti
  5. hedge cactus
  6. hedge clippers
  7. hedge creeper
  8. hedge creepers
  9. Hedge End
  10. hedge fund
  11. hedge funds

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