tweezers
Americannoun
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small pincers or nippers for plucking out hairs, extracting splinters, picking up small objects, etc.
plural noun
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Also called: pair of tweezers. tweezer. a small pincer-like instrument for handling small objects, plucking out hairs, etc
Etymology
Origin of tweezers
First recorded in 1645–55; plural of tweezer, equivalent to obsolete tweeze “case of surgical instruments” (aphetic form of earlier etweese, from French étuis, plural of étui, noun derivative of Old French étuier “to keep,” from Latin stūdiāre “to care for”) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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He used extra-long tweezers to place microgreens on a plate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
It has tweezers, whatever backgrounds I’m working with and cutting tools that are usually ballpoint pens that have run out of ink.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
In the virtual reality environment, participants had either a human-like hand or "bionic tool" resembling a large pair of tweezers grafted onto the end of their wrist.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
Next, using a pair of tweezers, he picked up a small metal grid.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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