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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wire cutters
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eric Dodd set down his wire cutters and leather gloves.
▪ He says some one with a screwdriver or wire cutters could take the picture and walk out of the door.
▪ Police had to use wire cutters to move on the protestors.
▪ The other had contained a jemmy, cans of spray paint, wire cutters, a brace and bit, and shears.
Wiktionary
wire cutters

n. A hand tool resembling pliers, intended for cutting wires.

Usage examples of "wire cutters".

How scarecrow outdoes scarecrow by a scarecrow head, how scarecrows keep bettering their time at elevating scarecrow crosses, how they overcome barbed-wire entanglements, not with old-fashioned wire cutters but by eating them up, barbs and all, then evacuate them barbless in scarecrow fashion, deserves to be recorded on charts, and recorded it is.

As if he had suddenly lost all balance, all control, Kendrick raised his arms as he slid off the fuselage, crashing the wire cutters down into the stock of the rifle.

Their beaks looked like wire cutters, dangerous, and each head was crowned by a flat cap of ocher shell.

He put it back in its sheath and took a pair of wire cutters from his pocket.

He touched the wire cutters to the leader and was about to snip it.