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Bonello attempts, with some success, to subvert the stereotypes of women as passive victims or as gangster molls serving as mere accessories for dominant males.
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Deborah Bonello, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
The Breen office was hip to the scam Hollywood always played in the gangster pictures — revel for 85 minutes in the gunplay, fast cars, cool clothes, and slinky molls before exacting a crime-does-not-pay penalty in the last five minutes.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
Yet had people not worked tirelessly to uncover the truth of what happened—the truth that had been buried underneath a morass of facts—Breonna Taylor might still be remembered as a suspect and some drug kingpin’s moll, not a tireless essential worker whose goal in life was to help people.
—Zz Packer, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2020
Mobster's moll Violet (Jennifer Tilly) yearns to escape from her violent lover, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano).
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
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
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Deborah Bonello, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
The Breen office was hip to the scam Hollywood always played in the gangster pictures — revel for 85 minutes in the gunplay, fast cars, cool clothes, and slinky molls before exacting a crime-does-not-pay penalty in the last five minutes.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
Yet had people not worked tirelessly to uncover the truth of what happened—the truth that had been buried underneath a morass of facts—Breonna Taylor might still be remembered as a suspect and some drug kingpin’s moll, not a tireless essential worker whose goal in life was to help people.
—Zz Packer, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2020
Mobster's moll Violet (Jennifer Tilly) yearns to escape from her violent lover, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano).
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
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
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Word History
Etymology
probably from Moll, nickname for Mary
First Known Use
1557, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Moll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moll. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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