Meaning of Moll | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.
2. A pet name for Mary.
   archaic
3. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
4. Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
   Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
5. A girlfriend of a bikie.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang
6. A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang
7. A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.
   slang

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Examples

“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate⟳ her.”

“"Makes me feel⟳ like⟳ a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine⟳, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her.”

“The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.”

“The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.”

“‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope⟳ it′s no one I know⟳.’ But the Machismos turn⟳ out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.”

“Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number⟳ 96 (1974).”

“Theſe vvere they that gave me that Name⟳ of Moll Flanders: For it vvas no more of Affinity vvith my real Name⟳, or vvith any of the Names I had ever gone by than black, is of Kin to vvhite, […]”

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