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gun moll. This term arose from the mistaken belief that the female accomplices of criminals carried their guns for them. The gun in the term does not refer to a firearm but derives from the Yiddish goniff, “a thief,” and moll is 18th-century slang for a woman. A gun moll in the 1920s was originally a female pick- pocket, before newspaper reporters mistakenly took to calling any racketeer’s girl a gun moll. |