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molly bolts

molly bolts is the plural of molly bolt.

Meaning of molly bolt

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

Questions about molly bolts

What is molly bolts the plural of?
Molly bolts is the plural of molly bolt.

Words near molly bolts in the dictionary

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

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