power tool

power tool

English

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

Hypernyms

• tool

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:power tool

Coordinate terms

• hand tool
• machine tool

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) 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

• Jonathon Green (2023), “power tool n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang