A prostitute. The girlfriend of a thief or vagrant.
"Once, when he was speaking of 'his old woman' for the time being, I asked if she was a 'crooked' one too. 'Oh, yes,' he replied; 'I never had nothin' to do with any "moll" who couldn't cut her own grass.'"
Five Years' Penal Servitude (1877).
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