"tongs" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a pair of tools with two long handles and curved arms joined at one end, used to pick up or hold something. Example sentence: I used the tongs to remove the hot chicken from the fryer.
Roving young women equipped with ice buckets and tongs have long been a fixture of Cambodia's karaoke parlours.
The Supreme Court said that Mr Bush had the right to hold combatants without trial but, crucially, it decided that the detainees at Guantánamo could have recourse to the United States courts—something Mr Bush has (disgracefully) fought hammer and tongs.
A New York judge, upholding a mandatory hairdressing test (involving old-fashioned hot tongs) that Mr Sassoon boycotted, bemoaned the "limey" intrusion: "Over there you can't tell the difference between the boys and the girls".
TRIADS, tongs, yakuza, pirates and opium lords, to say nothing of the emergent Russian mafiya the world of Asian crime seems incorrigibly glamorous, except, of course, to those who find themselves on the wrong side of these secret societies.
The only implements he allows anywhere near meat being cooked these days are blunt instruments like a mop for basting and a pair of tongs.
On each deck is a wooden shed and all the paraphernalia of oyster cultivation: tongs and rakes, mesh-bags of oyster spat, wire trays.
Dakotans see more attack ads in a week than most people see in a year, and the candidates have gone at each other hammer-and-tongs in no fewer than six debates.
Pantographs (reducing and enlarging copying instruments made on the lazy-tongs lever principle) might be used to transfer a drawing.
Calling one of her Thai constituents "a ting tong" was apparently OK.
He has seen rival gangs work together to organise drug corridors.In this section The big bellwether swings for Romney The money primary A hair of the dog Another one takes the plunge Making ting tong cool Turf wars The classes drift apart ReprintsAmerica is estimated to have over 33,000 gangs, with approximately 1.4m members; the great bulk of these are in cities.
Within three years Mr Tong aims to offer all university and high-school subjects.
