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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
Charging brick. I don't think I've ever heard them called anything else besides a charger.
Latauspalikka
Plugs?
It appears the manufacturers call them power adapters
Wow I’m the only one that called them “cubes” like “do you have a usb cube?” Or “do you have a usb-c cube?”
USB wall adaptor
Now that you make me think about it I think I've been calling them different names depending on what I intended to use them for, most of the time (I'm translating) I call them phone charger but I also called the power supply or usb power supply when I wanted to power something else.
Never thought about it.
Charging (or charger) blocks, or just "chargers".
Phone block
Charger.
The charger/phone charger. Since it's the most used charger it's just the default if we're not specific
Wall charger or charger brick
Power bricks Plugs
shaboops
At one point we called them USB chargers. Nowadays, though, I just call them e-waste. Every thing I’ve bought for the last few years has been USB-C, and chargers for those usually come with a 10w type A port.
USB wall-wart
USB chargers
A proper na.e would be an AC to DC adapter or a DC power supply.
Standalone USB chargers. Or in Dutch I'd probably just call them USB -opladers.
When it is a product that I don't know what the general term is, I look it up on Wikipedia. Usually, the different names for the item are discussed right there in the introduction and often have pictures.
If I am not satisfied with that result, then I find the product on a shopping website, and see what it is called there or what category it is in. In order to sell it, customers have to find it, which is why this is an effective tactic.
LEGOs older brother.
Firestarter
Wall block
USB Jacks.
Block. As in, "is there a charger in here? No goddamn it I have my own cord I just need the block"
Iphone charger
But off topic, but seemingly anything that can be used to charge an iphone of any era is iphone charger
Up in the PNW we call em 'butts'
Poorly designed. British plugs are the best in the world.
Charger
Pixels (or did you mean the photo? If so I call it a photo).
transformer (short for power transformer)
I think that's actually one of the official german words for it (Transformator - transformer), alongside Ladegerät - charging device, or Netzteil - grid part.
