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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GUN MOLL

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Gun moll is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GUN MOLL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Gun moll

A gun moll is the female companion of a male professional criminal. In some contexts, 'gun moll' more specifically suggests that the woman handles a firearm. When the term came into usage in the first decade of the 20th century, "gun" was not derived from the firearm, but from the Yiddish word meaning "thief," variously transliterated into English as ganefthe, gonif, goniff, or ganof, itself derived from Hebrew "Ganav". However, this distinction gradually disappeared, especially when such women became associated with gangsters noted for their frequent use of guns. "Moll" derives from "Molly", used as a euphemism for "whore" or "prostitute" and attested at least since 17th century England. In the U.S., the term has mostly been applied to a woman associating with an American gangster of the 1920s and 1930s, and in most cases remarkable only because of his notoriety. Extended use of the term without awareness of the Yiddish root, however, has invited interpretations of "gun" as suggesting more than simply criminal associations.

Definition of gun moll in the English dictionary

The definition of gun moll in the dictionary is a female criminal or a woman who associates with criminals.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GUN MOLL

gun barrel
gun battle
gun carriage
gun control
gun control laws
gun crew
gun crime
gun culture
gun dog
gun for
gun laws
gun licence
gun lobby
gun room
gun turret
gun-shy
gun-toting
gunboat
gunboat diplomacy
guncotton

WORDS THAT END LIKE GUN MOLL

baby doll
babydoll
boll
Carroll
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doll
electoral roll
honor roll
knoll
moll
payroll
poll
rock and roll
rock-and-roll
rock´n´roll
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Synonyms and antonyms of gun moll in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «gun moll» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GUN MOLL

Find out the translation of gun moll to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gun moll from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gun moll» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

莫尔枪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

moll arma
570 millions of speakers

English

gun moll
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बंदूक रंडी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

بندقية مول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пистолет минор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

moll arma
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্দুক মোল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pistolet moll
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Senjata api
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gun moll
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

銃短調
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

총 몰
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gun moll
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

súng moll
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துப்பாக்கி மோல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तोफा मॉल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Silah topağı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gun moll
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pistolet Moll
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пістолет мінор
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pistol Moll
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

gun moll
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geweer moll
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gun moll
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gun moll
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gun moll

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GUN MOLL»

The term «gun moll» is used very little and occupies the 155.624 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GUN MOLL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gun moll

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUN MOLL»

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Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
The gun moll is a rotten mother: ''It is in a gun moll's blood to look at the world through entirely different eyes from those of true motherhood'' (). The refusal to bear children had long been linked by race theorists to racial degeneracy.
Laura Browder, 2006
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Webster's II New College Dictionary
gun' met 'al adj. gun moll '.' Slang. A gangster's girlfriend and partner in crime. Gun-nar (gdbn'ar', -ar) n. Norse Myth. The husband of Brynhild, brother-in-law of Sigurd, and brother of Gudrun. Gunn effect (gun) n. (After J. B. Gunn (b. 1928).] ...
Webster's New World Dictionary, Editors Of Webster's II Dictionaries, 2005
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99 Cent Adventure Time Stories Galloping Greyhounds
Thomas Thursday. Europe; so they have belted down the odds to a mere 3 to 1. However,” opines Murphy, “put everything you own— including your step-ins—on Galloping Gun Moll to breeze home at least 50 lengths ahead of the show dog.
Thomas Thursday, 2014
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
To smarten up, esp. to dress smartly. 1952–. M. G. EBERHART 'You're really gun moll noun USA female thief; an armed woman. 1908–. A. KOESTLER Fierce- looking Yemenite gun- molls, Sephardi beauties (1949). Cf. moll noun. all gussied ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
60, 1982 gun moll noun a female gangster us, 1908 • "You thought any about becoming a gun moll?" I asked— Maxshuiman, The Many Loves ofDobie Gillis, p. 9, 1951 • Don't WOrry, I'm not a gun moll— Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 121 ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Yachting
The 58' Hatteras Gun Moll and her owner John Moll, this year's winner, are typical of the contenders for Shootout top honors. Moll, a successful businessman from Missouri, owned a 45' Hatteras and a 55' Hatteras before moving up to a 58.
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Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... guck, muck, ooze; 5 slime; 6 sludge gunman: 3 gun; 6 hit man; 7 shooter, torpedo; 8 hired gun; 10 gunslinger gun moll: 4 moll; 13 gangster's moll gun muzzle: 6 muzzle; 8 gunpoint gunnel: 6 blenny; 7 gun rest, gunwale gunner: 9 cannoneer; ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
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Beautiful Town: Stories and Essays
Suppose the fingerprint on a corner of the mahogany desk in the film Gun Moll Rosario was not that of the driver Johnson — that is the actor William Wilson — but was someone else's. "These were the two questions. Someone who did not ...
Haruo Satō, Francis B. Tenny, 1996
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Armed for Personal Defense
Women will, often times, do the classic “gun moll” bit. A gun moll was a gangster's girl friend who would keep his “gat” in her purse so that, if the cops rousted him, they couldn't get him for packing heat. Decades ago, when Sharon and I would ...
Jerry Ahern, 2010
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Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism
Add to this heady sexuality, undefmable except by what it is not (heterosexually male), the phallic power which a gun invokes and the gun moll becomes a location where desire and danger, female and male, familiar and transgressive ...
France Winddance Twine, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUN MOLL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gun moll is used in the context of the following news items.
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I Wake Up Dreaming moves to the Castro
The festival, I mean series, also features “Guns, Girls and Gangsters” (1959) starring Mamie Van Doren as a double-barreled gun moll, and ... «SFGate, Jun 15»
2
How Rachel Dolezal Crossed Line From Solidarity to Slumming
Yet she couldn't resist proving her bona fides by playing the gangsta, or at least the gun moll. In Mitchell's interview with New York magazine, ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jun 15»
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BWW Interviews: 6 Questions & a Plug with DAMN YANKEES' Tari …
Bonnie is a typical gun moll, baby doll voice, but not stupid as she would have you believe. She was a blast to play. I did a number called "Let's ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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The Young and the Restless Spoilers: Jack Returns to GC With …
... that she knows where the real Jack Abbott is and they can easily 'switch' back to their normal lives (normal as in drug lord and gun moll LOL!) ... «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Jun 15»
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Nic Pizzolatto, the Man Behind True Detective
Action and violence, the gun moll, the cheap wisdom—it was all there from the start. He got a creative-writing M.F.A. at the University of Arkansas, which led to ... «Vanity Fair, Jun 15»
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Marco Rubio: Driving while Republican
And then there is Rubio's gun moll, Jeanette Rubio. “Mrs. Rubio, a former cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, sideswiped a Porsche Panamera ... «Communities Digital News, Jun 15»
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"Anything Goes" Goes There. Theatre Memphis Tackles Vintage …
Even the usually reliable songbird and character actor Emily F. Chateau only manages one singularly grating dimension, as a shrill gun moll ... «Memphis Flyer, Jun 15»
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No good guys, but a fine play at The Pear
For example, when the gun moll girlfriend of a gangster stops in to offer her a deal and tries to tell her what to do, Frankie snaps at her, "Do you ... «San Jose Mercury News, May 15»
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Grace Lee Whitney Dies; Janice Rand Of 'Star Trek' Was 85
Mention should also be made of her wonderful performance as the gun moll in the OUTER LIMITS... She returned to the Trek franchise in large ... «Deadline, May 15»
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Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone To Star Opposite Each Other Again In …
... LAPD sergeant who fell for her seductive gun moll in 2013's Gangster Squad — and now, it seems that Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are in ... «Bustle, Apr 15»

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