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[linda22003]

Yes, a gangster's moll, sometimes known as a "gun moll". Another interesting slang term is "gunsel", which I first learned when I saw Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon". The junior gangster who tries to rough him up is a "gunsel".

I love slang from the thirties and forties; it's fun to watch films from that time for the line of patter.

[Cold Warrior]

That got me curious, so I looked up the derivation of the slang term "broad", and there doesn't seem to be much agreement on its origin. It's certainly outdated; I haven't heard it in years, and decades is probably more accurate. It's a very 1930s-1950s term.

Yes you have. You and I both used it as the second of a triple word phrase in a conversation regarding sex toys (the first being "booze" and we differed on the third)! :D

[linda22003]

You could be right, but certainly not in conversation (I was thinking of the "real" world).