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  1.                 From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
                    

    molly-guard /mol'ee·gard/, n.

    [University of Illinois] 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. In hardware catalogues, you'll see the much less interesting description “ guarded button”.