plural molls
1
a
: a gangster's girlfriend
b
2
dated
: a woman who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay : a woman who is a sex worker
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Worse, Liu’s one-dimensional moll spends the majority of her supporting screen time agonizing over toxic men, despite the actor’s best efforts to elevate the material.
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
Ball of Fire also pairs up a gangster’s moll, Sugarpuss O’Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), and a professor, Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) who work together trying to take down her mob boss boyfriend, all while falling in love.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
But this harlequin moll can’t match Joker’s lunacy as either lawbreaker or musician.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
Also starring in the production are Rhett Guter as conman Rooster and Isabella De Souza Moore as his moll Lily St. Regis.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
Gomez makes Jessi so much more than the telenovela version of a gangster's moll, while also leaning into the soapiness of such a character with gusto.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
As she’s poised in a YA triangle between selfish dreamboat Ryan and earnest nerd Collin (Taeho K), JJ just happens (or not) to have a run-in with a gang of baddies presided over by Nancy, an oligarch’s moll played by Anna Faris in wet-look platinum hair and magenta lipstick and raccoon eyeshadow.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 July 2024
This time, Grier’s moll, Lee Daniels (like the director!), and Margaret Markov’s revolutionary, Karen Brent, are the interracial prisoners chained together.
—Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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.
—Deborah Bonello, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
Ball of Fire also pairs up a gangster’s moll, Sugarpuss O’Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), and a professor, Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) who work together trying to take down her mob boss boyfriend, all while falling in love.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
But this harlequin moll can’t match Joker’s lunacy as either lawbreaker or musician.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
Also starring in the production are Rhett Guter as conman Rooster and Isabella De Souza Moore as his moll Lily St. Regis.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
Gomez makes Jessi so much more than the telenovela version of a gangster's moll, while also leaning into the soapiness of such a character with gusto.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
As she’s poised in a YA triangle between selfish dreamboat Ryan and earnest nerd Collin (Taeho K), JJ just happens (or not) to have a run-in with a gang of baddies presided over by Nancy, an oligarch’s moll played by Anna Faris in wet-look platinum hair and magenta lipstick and raccoon eyeshadow.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 July 2024
This time, Grier’s moll, Lee Daniels (like the director!), and Margaret Markov’s revolutionary, Karen Brent, are the interracial prisoners chained together.
—Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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.
—Deborah Bonello, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
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“Moll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moll. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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