Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tima mole n.

[Maori tima, a ship or steamer + moll n. (2)]

(N.Z. gay) male or female prostitutes working in ports and finding clients/relationships among sailors.

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[NZ]W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 65: In her memoirs Carmen Rupe uses the terms Tima mole to describe ship girls working New Zealand ports and waterfront boy to describe male workers [...] However, interviews with male prostitutes working in the 1970s suggest that the term Tima mole could be applied to both genders .