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They're useless when they run
Answer for the clue "They're useless when they run ", 6 letters:
nylons
Alternative clues for the word nylons
Word definitions for nylons in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940; see nylon .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) [syn: nylon stocking , rayons , rayon stocking , silk stocking ]
Usage examples of nylons.
Hopping ungainly on one foot, I tried to get my underwear on, thankful I had only been wearing the nylons that I brought from home when I went into the drink.
Soon the clack of nails in the hallway intruded, and as I put on my nylons, there was the pained sound of nails being pulled from wood.
Cold rock bit through my nylons, and I sucked in the air, gasping, gagging at the choking smell of ash.
My confidence level was going up even though my nylons were inching their way down.
One white dress, three pairs of nylons, some clear nail polish, and a lipstick.
He opened the sack again, took out a brown fabric wad, shook it into the recognizable form of two dark nylons and said, 'For your head.
But tonight, with her hair frizzing wild and full of dirt, her nylons ripped, her suit wrinkled and stained -- disheveled, disoriented, and desperate -- she felt that she fit in for the first time.
But the dust is thick over everything and scattered about the room lie half a dozen skeletons, still associated with the crumbling remains of slacks and sweaters, of Nylons and costume jewelry and brassieres.
Two women tore the nylons I was wearing - really good ones - another dragged a baby carriage across my ninety-dollar shoes.
Net loss: one pair of two-dollar nylons and one pair of ninety-dollar shoes.