A proper na.e would be an AC to DC adapter or a DC power supply.
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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
Charger or phone charger
Block
Egg.
Standalone USB chargers. Or in Dutch I'd probably just call them USB -opladers.
"Thingie"
Or in my language -- "Negocinho".
A Negocinho and a Cabo ("a thingie and a cable") make a phone charger ("carregador de celular")
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Power dispenser
Charge box
Wall charger or charger brick
Wow I’m the only one that called them “cubes” like “do you have a usb cube?” Or “do you have a usb-c cube?”
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Marshmallow
Cable head
The thing that goes into the plug but without the wire
Inkompatibel
Charger block
USB charger ("usb-laddare"), also when they are used as a permanent transformer.
USB wall-wart
Power bricks Plugs
Phone pixie wrangler.
USB charger brick.
Power block
When it is a product that I don't know what the general term is, I look it up on Wikipedia. Usually, the different names for the item are discussed right there in the introduction and often have pictures.
If I am not satisfied with that result, then I find the product on a shopping website, and see what it is called there or what category it is in. In order to sell it, customers have to find it, which is why this is an effective tactic.
Latauspalikka
wall wart
I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.
Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don't have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it's tiny. It's at most a wall pimple.
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Poopy diarrhea chargers
Up in the PNW we call em 'butts'