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molly-guard


molly-guard: /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] n. A shield
   to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or
   ignorant hands.  Originally used of the plexiglass covers
   improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler
   daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day.  Later
   generalized to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and
   networking equipment.