Molly or mollies may refer to:

Animals

* Any of the fish in the ''

Mollienesia ''Poecilia'' is a genus of fishes in the family Poeciliidae of the order Cyprinodontiformes. These livebearers are native to fresh, brackish water, brackish and salt water in the Americas, and some species in the genus are euryhaline. A few have ...

'' subgenus, especially **''

Poecilia sphenops ''Poecilia sphenops'', called the Mexican molly or simply the molly, is a species of poeciliid fish from Central America. It was once understood as a widespread species with numerous local variants ranging from Mexico to Venezuela, but these vari ...

'', short-finned molly **''

Poecilia latipinna The sailfin molly (''Poecilia latipinna'') is a livebearer fish typically found in both freshwater and brackish waterways along the East Coast of the United States, from North Carolina south to Florida, and around the Gulf of Mexico to Texas, an ...

'', sailfin molly **''

Poecilia velifera ''Poecilia velifera'', known as the Yucatan molly and also as the giant sailfin molly amongst aquarists, is a large livebearer that lives in coastal waters of the Yucatan Peninsula. These live-bearer (Poeciliidae) fish are particularly well know ...

'', Yucatan molly *

Fancy molly A fancy molly is any of the domestic strains of mollies (''Mollienesia'' subgenus of ''Poecilia''), which are livebearer fish popularly kept as aquarium pets. The origin of the fancy mollies is unclear, with '' P. sphenops'', '' P. gillii'', '' P ...

, domestic hybrids of the above

People

Molly (name) Molly (also spelled Molli or Mollie) is a diminutive of the feminine name Mary that, like other English diminutives in use since the Middle Ages, substituted l for r. Molly evolved from the English diminutive Mally. English surnames such as Mo ...

or Mollie, a female given name, including a list of persons and characters with the name *

Molly Pitcher Molly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. She is most often identified as Mary Ludwig Hays, who fought in the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. Another possibility is Margaret Corbin, who helped ...

, one of several American women believed to have helped fight against British forces during the American Revolution *

Molly Malone "Molly Malone" ( Roud 16932, also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the city's unofficial anthem. A statue representing Molly Malone, designed by Dublin artist Jeanne ...

, a mythical 19th-century Irish fishmonger and associated folk song and statue * Molly Mormon, a stereotype of a Latter-day Saints woman * Molly (surname)

Dance and theatre

* ''Molly'' (musical), a 1973 Broadway musical *

Molly dance Molly dancing is a form of English Morris dance from East Anglia, traditionally done by out-of-work ploughboys over the winter. First attested in the 1820s, the tradition was especially associated with Boxing Day and Plough Monday. It was la ...

, a form of English Morris dance

Film and television

* ''Molly'' (1983 film), an Australian film by Ned Lander * ''Molly'' (1999 film), an American film starring Elisabeth Shue * '' Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front'', a 2006 made-for-television film * ''

Mike & Molly ''Mike & Molly'' is an American television sitcom created by Mark Roberts for CBS. It aired from September 20, 2010 to May 16, 2016. The series stars Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy as the eponymous Mike and Molly, a couple who meet in a Ch ...

'' a 2010-2026 American television sitcom * '' The Roads Not Taken'' (working title ''Molly''), a 2020 American drama film by Sally Potter * ''Molly'' (miniseries), a 2016 Australian miniseries

Music

* "Molly" (Bobby Goldsboro song) * "Molly" (Lil Pump song) * "Molly" (Cedric Gervais song) * "Molly" (Tyga song) * "

Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain) "Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)" is a song by American rock band Sponge. The vocals of the original album version of the song, "Molly", were re-recorded for the single release, and retitled "Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)". It was released ...

", a 1995 single by Sponge * "Molly", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence from ''

Tight Tight may refer to: Clothing * Skin-tight garment, a garment that is held to the skin by elastic tension * Tights, a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet * Tightlacing, the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset ...

'' * "Molly", a song by Mike Oldfield from '' QE2'' * "Molly", a song by Ween from the album ''

The Pod ''The Pod'' is the second studio album by American rock band Ween. It was released on September 20, 1991, by Shimmy-Disc. Production The album was recorded from January to October 1990, at the Pod on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylva ...

'' *

The Mollys The Mollys were an American folk-rock quintet, influenced by Celtic and Tejano music, and based in Tucson, Arizona. For most of their run, their members were Nancy McCallion, Catherine Zavala, Kevin Schramm, Dan Sorenson and Gary Mackender. ...

, an American band mixing Celtic folk and Tejano music *

Flogging Molly Flogging Molly is an Irish-American seven-piece Celtic punk band formed in Los Angeles in 1997, led by Irish vocalist Dave King, formerly of the hard rock band Fastway. They are signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records. Histor ...

, an American Celtic punk band

Places

Aşağı Mollu Aşağı Mollu (also, Ashagy-Mollu, Ashaga Molly, and Molly) is a village in the Qubadli Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked countr ...

, Azerbaijan, also called Molly *

Mollie, Indiana Mollie is an ghost town, extinct American village in Blackford County, Indiana, that flourished during the Indiana Gas Boom from the 1880s until the 1920s. The region around Mollie experienced an economic "boom" period because of the disco ...

, an extinct American village * Mollee, New South Wales, a parish in

White County, New South Wales White County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located to the south of the Namoi River along both sides of Bohena Creek, with Narrabri at the northern end. It includes most of the Pilliga Nature Reserve. White ...

In street slang

MDMA 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly (crystal form), is an empathogen–entactogenic drug with stimulant and minor Psychedelic drug, psychedelic properties. In studies, it has been used ...

's crystallized form, a party drug *

Molotov cocktail A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see '') is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a Fuse (explosives), fuse (typically a glass bottle filled wit ...

, an improvised bottle-based incendiary weapon *

Molly house Molly house or molly-house was a term used in 18th- and 19th-century Britain for a meeting place for homosexual men and gender-nonconforming people. The meeting places were generally taverns, public houses, coffeehouses or even private rooms ...

, a meeting place for gay men in 18th- and 19th-century England

Other uses

Molly (fastener) A molly or molly bolt (often misspelled moly) is a type of screw fastener that fastens objects to plaster or gypsum board hollow walls by providing an anchor to be lodged inside a hole and expanded once in position. Larger sizes permit reasonabl ...

, a type of wall anchor * Molly (memoir), a 2023 memoir by Blake Butler *

Molly Maguires The Molly Maguires was an Irish people, Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish diaspora, Irish immigrant coal miners i ...

, a 19th-century Irish secret society *

MOLLE Modular lightweight load-carrying equipment, or MOLLE (pronounced ), is the current generation of load-bearing equipment used by the United States Army. MOLLE equipment uses Pouch Attachment Ladder System (PALS)-type webbing – rows of hea ...

, modular lightweight load-carrying equipment