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moll

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4 lettersPronunciation /mɒl/Part of speech nounSorted llmoStarts with MEnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the girlfriend of a gangster

Word origin

From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • "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.
  • 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.

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