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molly bolt

molly bolt noun: a specialized screw fastener used with drywall as a hollow-wall anchor.

Noun

molly bolt (plural molly bolts)

  1. A specialized screw fastener used with drywall as a hollow-wall anchor.
    • Insecurely tilted against the wall is the big oval mirror they took away when her parents had a new bathroom put in; he always meant to attach it to the plaster above her bureau for her but never got around to buying molly bolts.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 85

Forms of molly bolt

pluralmolly bolts

Origin of molly bolt

Former trademark.

Questions about molly bolt

What does molly bolt mean?
Molly bolt means a specialized screw fastener used with drywall as a hollow-wall anchor.
What part of speech is molly bolt?
Molly bolt is a noun.
What is the plural of molly bolt?
The plural of molly bolt is molly bolts.

Words near molly bolt in the dictionary

  1. mollusque
  2. mollusques
  3. Mollweide projection
  4. Mollweide projections
  5. molly
  6. molly bolt
  7. molly bolts
  8. molly house
  9. molly houses
  10. Molly Maguire
  11. Molly Maguireism

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