power tool

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

power tool (plural power tools)

1. Any of a wide class of tools powered by a motor (usually an electric motor); most especially such tools as are handheld, portable, and not stationary.

   Hypernym: tool

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:power tool

   Coordinate terms: hand tool, machine tool

2. (slang, derogatory) A very obnoxious person.

   Hypernyms: tool; see also Thesaurus:jerk

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 345:

     Most of the people in her class, even the power tools, thought that the book was totally entrenched.

Translations

tool powered by an electric motor

• Belarusian: электраінструме́нт m (eljektrainstrumjént), электрапрыбо́р m (eljektraprybór)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電動工具 / 电动工具 (diàndòng gōngjù)

• Danish: elværktøj n
• Finnish: sähkötyökalu
• Georgian: ელექტროხელსაწყო (elekṭroxelsac̣q̇o)
• German: Elektrogerät (de) n, Elektrowerkzeug (de) n
• Italian: utensile elettrico m
• Polish: elektronarzędzie (pl) n
• Russian: электроинструме́нт (ru) m (elektroinstrumént), электроприбо́р (ru) m (elektropribór)
• Ukrainian: електроінструме́нт m (elektroinstrumént), електроприла́д m (elektroprylád)

References

• “power tool n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present