gun moll
Americannoun
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a female companion of a criminal.
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a female criminal.
noun
Etymology
Origin of gun moll
1905–10; gun in earlier British argot “thief ” ( see ganef), later taken as gun 1, which has influenced sense; cf. son of a gun
Example Sentences
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Then, like a gun moll, the Queen Mother orders a martini.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
The CliffsNotes version the audience is given is that she’s an accomplished psychiatrist whom the Joker seduces, transforming her into a kind of clown-themed gun moll.
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2016
She's as much a gun moll as Richard Simmons is.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2013
Sutton’s famous quotation has always made him seem like a lovable dunce, Yogi Berra with a gun moll and a getaway car.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2012
By comparison, the younger McCarthy seems a kind of Vassar gun moll, playing Bonnie to the Clyde of Dwight Macdonald and other Partisan Reviewers of the 1930s and 1940s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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