tongs
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A tool made of two arms joined at one end, used to pick up and hold something you do not want to touch with your fingers.
Use the tongs to turn the sausages on the grill.
She lifted the hot jars out of the boiling water with tongs.
Metal tongs are safer than fingers when the oil spits.
Guests took the ice cubes with small silver tongs.
Common collocations: a pair of tongs · kitchen tongs · ice tongs · salad tongs · pick something up with tongs
Part of: Kitchen utensils, Cooking
Forms
- plural
- tongs (jen množné číslo)
- counting form
- a pair of tongs