"Birmingham screwdriver" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Humorously suggesting that people from Birmingham rely on the use of force to solve problems.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Birmingham screwdrivers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Birmingham screwdriver (plural Birmingham screwdrivers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Alex Ferrier, “Insurance Payout?”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)",
          "text": "I'll be watching the fucker like a hawk with a Birmingham screwdriver to the ready should I spot anything untoward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jonathan Meades, Museum Without Walls, Random House",
          "text": "Tinkering – the Midlands, especially, had a tradition, killed off by the introduction of the MoT test, of men who built cars called 'specials', bodged with a Birmingham screwdriver from components of other cars.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, RJ Smith, Cataclysm, Storyteller Entertainment, LLC",
          "text": "“I feel like I've been walloped with a Birmingham screwdriver!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hammer."
      ],
      "id": "en-Birmingham_screwdriver-en-noun-mE8Nf5ys",
      "links": [
        [
          "hammer",
          "hammer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) A hammer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-Birmingham screwdriver.ogg",
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Birmingham screwdriver"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Humorously suggesting that people from Birmingham rely on the use of force to solve problems.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Birmingham screwdrivers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Birmingham screwdriver (plural Birmingham screwdrivers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Alex Ferrier, “Insurance Payout?”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)",
          "text": "I'll be watching the fucker like a hawk with a Birmingham screwdriver to the ready should I spot anything untoward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jonathan Meades, Museum Without Walls, Random House",
          "text": "Tinkering – the Midlands, especially, had a tradition, killed off by the introduction of the MoT test, of men who built cars called 'specials', bodged with a Birmingham screwdriver from components of other cars.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, RJ Smith, Cataclysm, Storyteller Entertainment, LLC",
          "text": "“I feel like I've been walloped with a Birmingham screwdriver!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hammer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hammer",
          "hammer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) A hammer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-Birmingham screwdriver.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-au-Birmingham_screwdriver.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Birmingham screwdriver"
}