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What is an alternative term for Swiss army knife?

As in a general multi-purpose tool. It is a word that everybody understands, but I would like to know some alternatives.

Clarification:
The term Swiss army knife is often used to express a multi-purpose, versatile tool outside the contexts of knives or armies.

  • The Swiss army knife for writing books.
  • Perl is the Swiss army knife among programming languages.
  • Swiss army knife of codecs (Google's search entry completion).

I think that "multi-tool" or "one stop shop" are adequate alternative, maybe there are more?

Best Answer

You might say multi-tool.

A multi-tool (or multitool) is any one of a range of portable, versatile hand tools that combines several individual functions in a single unit. -- from Wikipedia

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