moll buzzer

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moll buzzer (plural moll buzzers)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A petty criminal who follows a female pickpocket.
    • 1874 July 26, Chicago Daily Tribune:
      Habitual criminal Molly Holbrook "has taken as her companion one Jim Hoya who is known to the police detectives as a moll buzzer, a man who follows a female pickpocket about, and receives from her the 'leathers' taken from a woman in public gatherings."
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