subs. (common).—Specifically, a professional strumpet, but see quot., 1851. For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, I. iv. The captain says we are to take the young gentleman on board directly. His liberty’s stopped for getting drunk and running after the DOLLY MOPS!
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, IV., 234. Those women who, for the sake of distinguishing them from the professionals, I must call amateurs, are generally spoken of as DOLLY-MOPS.
