moll buzzer

English

Noun

moll buzzer (plural moll buzzers)

  1. (slang) A petty criminal who follows a pickpocket.
    • July 26, 1874, 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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