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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

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    Phone pixie wrangler.

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      I generally think of these as "transformers", but I call it a power supply. Mostly folks look at me like a Labrador trying to do calculus, and say "You mean a power brick?"

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      When I was a kid I saw some model train stuff in boxes in our house storage and asked about it, my dad said we needed a transformer, unfortunately not the many Transformers I had in my toybox...we never got the power one but I always remember thinking we needed one to power trains for years. No idea what ever happened to them, now that I think of it I assume my Mom made sure we didn't have storage after a move, I always wanted to see those trains move.

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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

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        Wall Adapter

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        • S [email protected]

          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

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          "Thingie"

          Or in my language -- "Negocinho".

          A Negocinho and a Cabo ("a thingie and a cable") make a phone charger ("carregador de celular")

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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

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            USB Charger

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            • S [email protected]

              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

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              "That thing to connect USB to the outlet"

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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

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                Wall warts

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                • S [email protected]

                  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

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                  YF-W36-2U

                  Though sometimes like to be more specific and say something like "hey can you grab the blue YF-W36-2U for me?"

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                  • S [email protected]

                    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

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                    Power bricks or USB bricks. A dongle is an adapter, so it has some sort of thing on each side (besides a power plug lol).

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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

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                      As it says on the device, power adapter. But if you wanted to be more specific, you could call it a USB power adapter.

                      Wall charger should also get the message across.

                      Take your fiancée to the hospital & check for stroke. Dongles...are something entirely different. Always.

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                      • S [email protected]

                        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

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                        Charge box

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                          It's not a stretch it's wrong. It's not a dongle at all

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                          Exactly. Dongles dangle

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                          • S [email protected]

                            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

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                            Butts. Seriously. But no one ever knows what im asking for, so then I say "the cube, the brick, the chargey part...with a usb please"

                            I don't think I made it up, but literally no one else ever seems to call them that, so idk where I heard it.

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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

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                              Wall to big USB.

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                                Exactly. Dongles dangle

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                                I don't believe that's true either. A flash drive is a dongle isn't it

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                                  Fire starters

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                                  Twisted fire starter!

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                                    usb wall plugs.

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                                    beat me to it.

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                                      In my house, we call them butt plugs.

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                                      Better get that ED money ready, honey, because that flared base ain't right.

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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

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                                        Power block

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                                        • C [email protected]

                                          As it says on the device, power adapter. But if you wanted to be more specific, you could call it a USB power adapter.

                                          Wall charger should also get the message across.

                                          Take your fiancée to the hospital & check for stroke. Dongles...are something entirely different. Always.

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                                          Power Adapter is too broad.

                                          If someone asked me for one I wouldn't know what they wanted. It could be an international adapter, or a DC power supply, or one of these things.

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