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tweezers

2 definitions • 3 examples
1
a small piece of equipment made of two narrow strips of metal joined at one end. It is used to pull out hairs or to pick up small objects by pressing the two strips of metal together with the fingers:

Examples:

a pair of tweezers
eyebrow tweezers
2
a small device having two narrow, metal sides joined at one end and open at the other, used to hold or pull a small thing, such as a hair, by pressing the two sides until the open ends come together on the thing to be held:

Examples:

He tried to get the splinter out with tweezers.

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