pair of tongs
Two-armed grabbing tool
A pair of tongs is a tool with two arms joined at one end, used for gripping and lifting objects—ice, salad, hot coals, or laboratory specimens.
Like scissors or pliers, tongs are a single implement despite the plural-sounding name: Hand me that pair of tongs.
Often shortened to just tongs: salad tongs, barbecue tongs.
- hingedConnected by pivot joint
- cookingPreparing food with heat
- kitchen utensilTool for food preparation
- tweezersPincerlike gripping instrument
- grabSeize abruptly
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