Wall wart or charging brick.
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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
Wall wart gang!
usb charger / usb wall plug / usb power adapter
drop the 'usb' when the context makes it obvious
If the transformer is in the same housing at the plug with a separate cable (as shown): wall wart.
If the DC cable is attached, it's a charger.
If it's housed in its own case, it's a power brick.
If there's no transformer it's a power lead, unless it's rated for over 10A, then it's a power cable.
Dongles are peripherals that are housed in the same casing as the host connector. Anyone who thinks they can power a device with a dongle is a dangerous sociopath.
If it's housed in its own case, it's a power brick.
This is a line lump, the alternative to the wall wart. Both were slang terms, it just sounds like only one of them stuck around.
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Usually charger brick or just brick
Charging brick.
Unless I'm describing it in a system, then it's a full bridge rectifier :)
Adapter or charger. Rarely - power brick.
Charging Blocks
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?"
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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?"
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Wall Wart
Wall wart or power brick.
Ladegerät
USB chargers.
"Dongles" are wire to wire USB adapters for computers. Sound "cards", Ethernet adapters, video adapters.
Charge block.
"Charger" (lader) in general and more specific "block" (blokje)
Stromziegel
USB charger or adapter
I usually call them "those, uh, usb thingies" while pantomiming plugging one into the wall
Usb wall charger
When I was in college, we called these wall warts.
"Wall Warts"
Charging brick. Or, if an unmarked generic brand like the ones you've shown, Fire Hazard.
Charging block
wall warts
Power biscuit
Power bricks or USB bricks. A dongle is an adapter, so it has some sort of thing on each side (besides a power plug lol).
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Charging brick. I don't think I've ever heard them called anything else besides a charger.
Isn't it a mobile charger?
USB charger
My family calls them charging doots
Edit: or also sometimes “wall-to-usb adapters”
I'd call them USB adapters; "chargers" is probably slightly more common though never sat right with me since they can be used to power things other than charging.
Or more in the past we would call any kind of power adapters "transformers" but don't seem to hear that much any more.
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Wall block USB wall block
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