molly-guard
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
[edit] Pronunciation
/mol'ee-gard/
[edit] Noun
molly-guard
- A shield to prevent the tripping of a computer's Big Red Switch (emergency shutdown or power switch) by clumsy or ignorant hands.
