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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
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.
Charge block.
"That thing to connect USB to the outlet"
USB charger or adapter
Stromziegel
Phone pixie wrangler.
When I was in college, we called these wall warts.
Switchmode power supply.
USB power supply
Dongle? That implies connection to a host computer.
Brick or Charger
Wall wart or charging brick.
Wall wart gang!
All of these work except "dongle". a dongle had a specific purpose in my day, some high end software wouldnt work without the dongle (a USB, serial or parallel device) plugged into the computer. Was an anti piracy device.
We call them Handyladegeräte, and I think that's beautiful
Had to check that out.
Handy = mobile phone
lade[n] = charge
geräte = devices
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Handy
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ladeger%C3%A4t
"Charger" <- "Ładowarka" "Power adapter" <- "Zasilacz" (I am from Poland)
Wall block
USB power adapter
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?"
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.
Chakra, Charging brick, power adapter
I don't know, but now I'm calling them wall warts because this community corrupts us, lol.
Ladegerät
I’m reading through the comments and pretty much I’ve heard them called all of them and I’ve called them most of them
Except a wall wart
Wall Wart
AC adapters
Fire hazards
Plug adapter - UK
Butt candy.
