Tweezers are a small tool for picking up or pulling out things too tiny for your fingers. Two narrow strips of metal are joined at one end, so when you squeeze the loose ends they close together and grip. People use them to pull out hairs from their eyebrows, to get a splinter or a piece of glass out of skin, to hold a small part while gluing a model, and in laboratories to move tiny things. Like scissors, trousers and glasses, this word is always plural because the thing has two matching halves: you say 'the tweezers are in the drawer', and 'some tweezers' or 'a pair of tweezers' — never 'a tweezer'. In everyday speech people often just say 'the tweezers' for the pair. There is also a verb: to tweeze, meaning to pull hair out with tweezers, which is mostly American and mostly about eyebrows. Careful with the sound: it ends in a z sound, TWEE-zerz, and the first part rhymes with 'knees'.