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doughnut dolly en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

So called because they served doughnuts at mobile canteens.

Meanings

1. (US, historical, slang) A female volunteer for the American Red Cross providing support to servicemen.
   • Carter said they flew some doughnut dollies out to Colt the other day, but they live way up at the headquarters compound, and you said you've only been between here and the hospital. 1984, William E. Holland, Let a Soldier Die, page 151:
   • Rankin said she recommended the producers drop the character of K.C., a "doughnut dolly” who became a prostitute 1988, Media Report to Women - Volumes 16-17:

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