power tool

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power tool (plural power tools)

1. Any of a wide class of tools powered by a motor (usually an electric motor); most especially such tools as are handheld, portable, and not stationary.
2. (slang, derogatory) A very obnoxious person.
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 345:

     Most of the people in her class, even the power tools, thought that the book was totally entrenched.

• tool

• See also Thesaurus:power tool

• hand tool
• machine tool

• “power tool n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present