Meaning

6 senses
  1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.

  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.

  3. (Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang)Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.

  4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang)A girlfriend of a bikie.

    the girlfriend of a gangster

  5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang)A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.

  6. (slang)A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: molls
Singularmoll
Pluralmolls

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
woman of low morals:molly
surfie's girlfriend:chick
Close in meaning
  • the girlfriend of a gangster:gun mollgangster's moll

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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