moll

plural molls · alternative mole

1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.

   "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.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 72

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   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.

   1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01

   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.

   2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.

   Synonyms: molly

3. AustraliaNew ZealandderogatoryslangBitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
4. AustraliaNew ZealandslangA girlfriend of a bikie.

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

   1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 209

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   ‘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.

   1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, page 76

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

   2009, Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, page 142

5. AustraliaNew ZealandslangA girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
6. slangA female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

1. not comparableobsoleteentertainmentminor; in the minor key.

   Bach's Gavotte in B Moll

1. archaicA pet name for Mary.

   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, […]

   1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 262

2. alternativepossibly older usageAlternative form of Mol, Belgium