tweezer

noun

twee·​zer ˈtwē-zər How to pronounce tweezer (audio)

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The full toolkit comes with a soldering iron, battery pack, and a variety of additional tools, including mandible wire strippers and flush cutters, silicone electrical tape, angled tweezers, a desoldering braid, and a silicone work mat. Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 13 June 2025 Best: Use fine-tip tweezers Worst: Use your fingers or a tweezers with a wide tip Ticks are remarkably small—many are no bigger than a poppy seed, Shamoon-Pour says. Angela Haupt, Time, 30 May 2025 Around them, tables are laden with parts and small hand tools like pliers and tweezers. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025 Yes These elegant tassels clamp on like tweezers to the nipples and double as stimulation and decoration, with metal chains and silver balls adorning the ends. Malia Griggs, Glamour, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tweezer

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tweezer was in 1904

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“Tweezer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tweezer. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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