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jack nuts

jack nuts is the plural of jack nut.

Meaning of jack nut

Noun

jack nut (plural jack nuts)

  1. A type of nut with a sheet metal body that mushrooms outward, on the far side of the hole through the substrate, when the screw is screwed in, thus providing anchoring with only one-sided access to the hole. It is nearly equivalent to the female portion of a molly bolt.

Questions about jack nuts

What is jack nuts the plural of?
Jack nuts is the plural of jack nut.

Words near jack nuts in the dictionary

  1. Jack Nasty-Face
  2. Jack Nasty-Faces
  3. Jack Nastys
  4. Jack Nod
  5. jack nut
  6. jack nuts
  7. Jack o' the clock
  8. Jack o' the clocks
  9. jack o'lantern
  10. jack o'lanterns
  11. jack of all trades

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