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pliers

noun as in pincers

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Police said she was cited for carrying a pair of pliers as a burglary tool, resisting arrest and shoplifting before she was released.

Some of those remaining had deep gouging and scratches, which looked like marks left by pliers.

From BBC

In the latest violent attack on the county’s mass transit system, a man riding a Metro bus stole a fellow passenger’s cellphone on Tuesday after striking the victim with a pair of pliers in a bold daytime robbery, according to authorities.

But when officers arrived on the scene they learned that a man repeatedly struck another passenger in the chest with a pair of pliers while they were riding on the bus.

"Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?"

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