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"An effeminate male, a male homosexual."
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"(slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual."
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"ref": "2013, “We Can’t Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus",
"text": "So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want",
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"Pure MDMA powder."
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"(slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder."
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"A mollemoke."
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"A bird, the wagtail."
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"A molly bolt."
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"ref": "1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79",
"text": "I said, \"I never mollied you.\" My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.",
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"ref": "2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain",
"text": "On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'",
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"ref": "2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day",
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"To engage in (male) homosexual activity with."
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"word": "mollydocker"
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"(slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual."
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"ref": "2013, “We Can’t Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus",
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"Pure MDMA powder."
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"ref": "2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day",
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