Synonyms for tool
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Weapon — A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation
mechanism, device, apparatus, appliance, widget, shaft, fool, dupe, organ, cock informal, weapon slang, machine dated, toy slang, sucker slang dated UK, dick slang, ass-licker vulgar slang US, arse-licker UK, arselicker UK, pecker slang, putz slang, ramrod slang, langer slang IE
Other
instrument, utensil, implement, hireling, cat's-paw, joy ride, prick slang, quockerwodger rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- n. 2
Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.
Related words
- Word family
- toolbar toolbox toolhouse toolpost toolstock tooltip
- Phrases
- tool around crimping tool entrenching tool hooligan tool oscillating tool sex tool spare tool tool chest
- Is a kind of
- application program
Forms
- Plural
- tools → mechanisms, devices, apparatuses, appliances…
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A tool is something that is both contrived and used for extending the force of an intelligent agent to something that is to be operated upon.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- device It's an attractive price, for this sort of device.
- mechanism Handcuffs are none other than a ratchet mechanism.
- apparatus Something is wrong with the experimental apparatus.
- widget It's the widget that overcomes web marketing's weaknesses.
- instrument What was the first instrument you learned to play?
By length
- 3 letters
- toy1
- 4 letters
- dick1, fool1, cock1, dupe1, putz1
- 5 letters
- organ2, shaft1, prick1
- 6 letters
- device2, weapon2, puppet2, sucker2, widget2, langer2, pecker, ramrod2
- 7 letters
- machine2, utensil3
- 8 letters
- creature2, hireling
- 9 letters
- mechanism4, implement3, apparatus4, appliance3
- 10 letters
- instrument3, arselicker
- 13 letters
- quockerwodger
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (organ2 = 2 syllables).