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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, or power adapter.
I can't think of a better term for these.
This is a wall plugged charger with USB A -> please stop calling it dongle. I am sure we can at least agree, that dongle is factually wrong.
Wall wart
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.
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.
That's totally fair, and I agree. People in my circles say power adapter or wall charger, or hell actually enough people also say HEY. I need a phone charger. Understood. 🤙🤙🤙
USB charger
USB charger.
I refuse any moniker for these besides bricks
It's only a brick if it's separated from both the outlet and the device it's powering by cables. Fight me.
🤔 you know I think you might be right. I'm going to continue calling it a brick it out of spite.
Spite is one hell of a motivator. Being hunted by hyenas is another. There's probably others, too.
Isn't that in itself a moniker?
POWER ADAPTER
Mode: YF-W36-2U
Input: 100-240v~50/60Hz 0.35A
Output: 5V=2.4A Total
All of that minus dongles. Never dongles!
USB A/C adapter, or just "ac adapter".
This is my actual answer, also "wall adapter," but I really liked Ginny's "argly bargy cable chargie."
Clearly labeled power adapters
Adapter or charger. Rarely - power brick.
Charger block/brick. I'm definitrly siding with you; "dongle" is a bit of a stretch for these.
wall wart
I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.
Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don't have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it's tiny. It's at most a wall pimple.
wall pimple it is then
“Charging block”
Wall Adapter
USB Charger
Wall wart, but nobody knows what the fuck I’m talking about. “charger plug” is what those anround me expect to hear. So, that’s what I call them.
Power brick, power adapter, or USB charger are what come to mind for me.
I gotta say I disagree heavily with your fiancee on dongles. IMO dongles are adapters for data of some kind, not just power from the wall. But to each their own I guess.
I think I'd call them "bad USB chargers"
USB adaptor
If context is unclear might add a "mains" or even "C" in the middle as needed.
AC/DC-inator
Full Bridge Rectifier
"no not an iPhone charger, I need USB C"
I call those release the Epstein files
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?"
The Dingus. Wall wart. And a whole number of colorful names if I step on one with the prongs up, or roll my ankle on one in the dark!
Squares
The wonders of spanish
Phone Charger/Wall Charger
