ホチキス
ほちきす
noun
stapler
1.
stapler
A device used to fasten sheets of paper together by driving thin metal staples through them.
ホチキスを貸して。
Lend me the stapler.
資料をホチキスで留めてください。
Please staple the documents together.
ホチキスの針が切れたので、新しいのを買ってきた。
The stapler ran out of staples, so I bought new ones.
The standard Japanese word for a stapler. Named after the E.H. Hotchkiss company, an early American manufacturer of staplers. This is a common example of a brand name becoming a generic term in Japanese.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- ホチキスで留める: to staple together
- ホチキスの針: staples (the metal fasteners)
- ホチキスの針を入れる: to load staples
- ホチキスを外す: to remove a staple
RELATED TERMS:
- ステープラー: stapler — the formal/technical term, rarely used in everyday speech
- ホチキスの芯: staple refills — alternative term for the staples themselves
- 針なしホチキス: stapleless stapler — a modern variant that crimps paper without metal staples