moll-buzzer

• A "moll-buzzer" is a thief who robs women in crowds. —  The Grammar School Boys Snowbound or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports
• He never grew into a "moll-buzzer." —  Never-Fail Blake
• (August, 1910): "It puzzles [the ordinary citizen of N.Y.] to have the country cousin clutch his arm and enquire whether that rough-looking customer coming out of a Chatham Square saloon is a dip, a yegg, a stall, a moll-buzzer, a Fagin, or a gun." —  OUPblog

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