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From left, stalwart Fast/Furious gun molls Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez, who know their way around all sorts of fancy cars, not to mention firearms, breezily support central good/bad dude Vin Diesel, who’s doing his best professional bowling imitation for the paparazzi.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026 But their stories aren’t the half of it April 1, 2025
Convicting ‘gun moll’ Barbara Graham was a famous win for L.A. prosecutors.—Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025 The woman caught within the frame is part gamine, gun moll.—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023 Then, like a gun moll, the Queen Mother orders a martini.—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023 Before Bonnie and Clyde gained fame during the Depression Era, the Whittemores — and the press who breathlessly covered them — established the archetype of the seductive bad boy and his loyal gun moll.—Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2021
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Etymology
argot gun thief, rascal, by shortening & alteration from gonoph, ganef thief — more at ganef