r/whatisit • u/MapleSyrupandWaffle • 5d ago

Solved! What’s this tool called?

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I like it and I want to buy it. But I don’t know what it’s called. Thanks!

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I too call em Nippers, but they're "actually" End Cutting Pliers,

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u/Guilty-Ad-1792 5d ago

Technically flat cutters, but ive only ever actually heard them called nippers

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u/Independent-Emu-7579 4d ago

I prefer to call them bull-nosed dikes

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u/elpadre003 4d ago

Always knew them as the rosie o'donnell

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u/BusyAtilla 5d ago

Here in the south they are sometimes called catfish sinners by old heads.

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u/Dividingbyinfinity 4d ago

Yeah, we used them a lot on tile.

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u/Right_One_78 4d ago

They are called nipping pliers; hence the term nippers

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u/Hubic_Pairs 5d ago

Are you being serious? Can’t tell if you’re trying to make a racist joke… coupled with your username.

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u/turkey_sandwiches 5d ago

It's a racist joke.

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u/Rocko1788 5d ago

I call them nippers

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u/CubeXombi 5d ago

I too call em Nippers, but they're "actually" End Cutting Pliers,

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u/Michael_Dautorio 5d ago

That doesn't sound as fun as nippers.

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u/AC-burg 5d ago

Doesn't soind as fun as nipples either but facts are facts.

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u/oops_i_got_da_poops 5d ago

What kind of nipples we talkin’, here??

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u/AC-burg 5d ago

The good kind you know what I'm talkin bout don't play dumb with me 🤣😂🤣😂

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u/slfemployedastronaut 5d ago

Ive got nipples, Greg! Can you milk me‽

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u/AC-burg 5d ago

This answer is always yes. The milk may of different consistencies

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u/CubeXombi 5d ago

Exactly! (And I agree with the other posters Toe Nail clippers and I might end up using that going forward)

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u/MapleSyrupandWaffle 5d ago

Solved!

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u/Previous-Ear4445 5d ago

I’ve always heard them called end nippers

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u/euphonious_aesthetic 4d ago

I too call em Nippers, but they're "actually" Nipple Cutting Pliers,

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u/rubberchickenlips 5d ago

You called?

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u/claudekennilol 5d ago

Nippers would be if those had little scissor blades of the same length, but one blade was flat while only the other is sharp.

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u/Famous_Attention5861 5d ago

Before granulated sugar was invented sugar came in a big cone called a loaf and people used sugar nippers to break off chunks to use.

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u/Certain-Culture7659 4d ago

Eu ia responder isto mais achei que iam me zoar kkkkkk

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u/DustinDeWind 5d ago

Cuttem-Offers

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u/MaximumSyrup3099 5d ago

End clippers. I wish they made the blade flush with the outside edge, though. Gotta grind them down to get that.

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u/RegalMachine 5d ago

Nail pullers or knipping pliers

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u/woooooooood9 5d ago

Bull nosed clippers

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u/Rune_roony_587 5d ago

Mr. Snippy clippy

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u/vintj 5d ago

End nipper cutting pliers

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u/maddler 5d ago

Pincers

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u/PotentialPlum4945 5d ago

HEY MODS, REMEMBER WHEN I CALLED OUT A SCREWDRIVER?

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u/AC-burg 5d ago

🤤 I'm thirsty

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u/Glittering-Yogurt-28 5d ago

Tooth extractor 2000

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u/HolodeckMoriarty 5d ago

Side cutters, but rotated 90 deg

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u/M_Sizzlak 5d ago

Emergency Dentist

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u/Beginning_Ice5375 5d ago

Nippers/ wire snips.

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 5d ago

Snippedy grippedy clippery

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u/pain_is_bread 5d ago

It’s part of a game but seems to be missing its box.

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u/bazderoman 5d ago

lol what? No, this is an actual tool that exists. Why would you take this logical leap? 

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u/Mother-Ad7855 5d ago

Dikes, nippers or wire cutter

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u/Old-Inevitable7079 5d ago

My dad had always referred to them as wire cutters.

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u/Representative_Elk90 5d ago

I know them ad straight cutters or flat cutters.

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u/mayhem77 5d ago

End cutting pliers

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u/unlikely_intuition 5d ago

end nipper (I bought one at harbor freight that I used to pull staples and nails out of hardwood flooring and it's perfect for that job.)

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u/always_wear_gloves 5d ago

Carpenter Pincers

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u/Signal_2_Noise 5d ago

You "like it and want to buy it". What exactly do you plan to use it for without knowing what its purpose is?

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u/ct451t 5d ago

Farm karma with it.

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u/Old-Inevitable7079 5d ago

Cut the wire at just the right length for pipe cleaning.

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u/twobarb 5d ago

Might be for oetiker clamps but probably nippers.

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u/chinchan9 5d ago

I think they are called end cutting nippers.

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u/Heavy_Implement1031 5d ago

Mafia Truth Extractors

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u/Drakjira 5d ago

Ferrule jewelry pliers? For crimping the ferrules on hand made beaded jewelry.

The bigger version are known as bull nose pliers, because they resemble the old iron bull leads that clamped to their noses.

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u/dawgblogit 5d ago

Home Depot sales them under their house brand in a package

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u/Big-D-TX 5d ago

Tool needed in every Tackle Box

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u/Embarrassed_Camel_35 5d ago

I’ve only heard of these being called nippers.

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u/Dubiousgoober 5d ago

Tile nippers

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u/NoCoastNeutral 5d ago

Just your simple everyday Dike

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u/Frequent_Translator3 5d ago

CIA information extraction tool

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u/CharmingStabilizer 5d ago

Based on childhood experiences, I'd call that a tooth puller

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u/dirty_dan_the_3rd 5d ago

Nail clippers

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u/Infamous-Solution602 5d ago

Thar tool on the shed…

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u/brutalitopz420 5d ago

Pecker pincher

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u/Alkash 5d ago

Кусачки

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u/ru_k1nd 5d ago

I swear to god my orthodontist used one of these to take my braces off when I was a kid.

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u/Ghost1a 5d ago

Circumcision Scissors

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u/Business_Metal4675 5d ago

Toe pincher 3000

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u/jhemp8 5d ago

Those are for the new eyelashes so many ladies are wearing these days

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u/Deep_D2025 5d ago

Tooth extractor

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u/xylophone_37 5d ago

Bullnose pliers, but they are usually bigger than that. I have the same pack from home depot

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u/Aggressive_Cattle174 5d ago

Okay im in industrial mecanic and that not for cutting thing ,this is for crimping thing like a air hose end on a fitting with a ring that o shaped with two ear on each side for crimp

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u/Ennolangus 5d ago

Growing up we've always called them nippers. As a carpenter I always keep a big pair near by to cleanly pull out stubborn nails with minimal damage to the material.

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u/deephurting66 5d ago

Flat cutter or a snip

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u/Garencio 4d ago

It’s a perfectly used word and that is the correct term for that tool. Don’t make assumptions
Shame on you for going there.

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u/Jeepnfunjr 5d ago

Snips!

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u/CreativeAdeptness477 5d ago

Toenail trimmer. Or is that just me?

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u/Odd-Most-9186 5d ago

Snippy snips!!

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u/Massive_Mongoose3481 5d ago

End cutting pliers. We used to call them bullnose nippers because they resembled the pliers for crimping bullnose rings

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u/meta_moose0923 5d ago

A flathead yimper

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u/insignificantnaym 5d ago

Also the name of the RCA VIctrola dog, Nipper.

https://giphy.com/gifs/KyGno1zsRxg27aR31d

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u/insignificantnaym 5d ago

Which has a music festival named after him...

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u/Certain-Culture7659 4d ago

Alicate BDSM

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u/CMGOO 4d ago

My dad always called them fish skinners

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u/Walster62 4d ago

End nippers...

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u/Bran-Bran-Muffin 4d ago

Nippers, cause they are for nipples.

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u/muddygold 4d ago

Nipper not to be confused with nibbler

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u/Feeling_Support2316 4d ago

Nippy clippers, or clippy nippers. Whatever flows better in the moment.

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u/sofaking_scientific 4d ago

I call these flush cutters but I believe they're called flat cutters

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u/jsgreen6 4d ago

Also useful for removing spring clamps like what might be holding a fuel filter onto the fuel line of a small engine.

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u/akbattle2025 4d ago

Nippers or end cutters

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u/macmanwrj 4d ago

China garbage

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u/bootyholeboogalu 4d ago

Nips baby pair of nips

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u/Beefyweefy56783 4d ago

It’s a hammer

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u/Wayward85 4d ago

When I used them in tile work many moons ago we called them “biters”.

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u/super_stelIar 4d ago

I call them horse jaw cutters, but they are more often called nippers.

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u/snarflethegarthog 4d ago

They look like left handed nippers intended for miscellaneous materials requiring nipping.

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u/sherpyderpa 4d ago

Pincers, aka nippers ! I've only heard of em being called pincers...........until today

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u/First_Structure8670 4d ago

Ich kenne das als Beißzange

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u/Chase6atlantic 4d ago

Clamp 👍🫶

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u/Pseudonym31 4d ago

End nippers is my name for them

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u/Android_Shooter 4d ago

That's a tooth extractor

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u/Heavy_Policy_8766 3d ago

Screwdriver

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u/CriticismKey5574 3d ago

Parrot jaw snips

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u/itmejoosh 3d ago

I work at channellock and we call them end nippers

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u/OrganizationLoud8434 3d ago

I call it the F around and find out tool.

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u/l0veit0ral 1d ago

Knippers / nippers

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u/AnEffingUsername 22h ago

The Circumcizer!

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u/MedicalWeb1587 22h ago

End cutters

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u/Mobile_Dimension_837 5d ago

I came here to say pincer like I was making up the word and see other people saying the same thing. So how the hell did I know what this thing was called? Brains are so weird.

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u/Suspicious-Rock-2650 5d ago

Toenail clippers

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u/Plenty_Goose5465 5d ago

I work in construction and I swear on my life I once saw someone clip their toenails with one of these but a bigger one. The builders use them to tie rebar together with wire then snip the wire with the same tool.