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BNC: 42432 COCA: 33898

moll

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
moll /ˈmɑːl/ noun
plural molls
moll
/ˈmɑːl/
noun
plural molls
Learner's definition of MOLL
[count] chiefly US, old-fashioned + informal
: a girlfriend of a criminal罪犯的女友
called also (chiefly US) gun moll
BNC: 42432 COCA: 33898

moll

noun

ˈmäl How to pronounce moll (audio)
ˈmȯl
1
2
b
: a gangster's girlfriend

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Everyone’s favorite power couple: a prankster drummer and a drug moll. Vulture Editors, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021 There was always something fated in Stone’s casting as Ginger, the moll to Robert DeNiro’s casino mogul in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 Las Vegas crime epic. Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2020 The waiter has hardly made it out the door before the gangster has sprinkled salt and squeezed lemon on his moll’s nipple, licking it off. Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020 Earle Skow, a defense attorney, gazed through the bars at the drunken gangster moll. oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019 Film noir is also associated with the era of mobsters and molls, which brings to mind the days of liquor-bootlegging during Prohibition. Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2019 Especially when miniskirted molls in a back-alley dive are leading it. Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019 On first blush Narcos is straightforward genre fare: tough-talking men, a drug moll or two, and guns and bullets galore. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2018 Here, our roster of up-to-the-minute suggestions for how to channel the sensational looks of a 1930s gun moll, as seen through the eyes of Hollywood a half century ago. Alice Bell, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

probably from Moll, nickname for Mary

First Known Use

1557, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of moll was in 1557
BNC: 42432 COCA: 33898

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