Green’s Dictionary of Slang

almond rock n.

[rhy. sl.]

1. a frock [cite 1893 is poss. double entendre ref. to almond n.1 (1)].

1893
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1979
[UK]J. Tabrar [perf. Marie Lloyd] Buy Me Some Almond Rock 🎵 I shall say to a young man gay / If he treads upon my frock / Randy Pandy, sugardy candy / Buy me some Almond Rock.
[UK]R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 21: She then began removing / Her full-length almond rock.

2. (also almonds) in pl., socks.

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[UK]W. Muir Observations of Orderly 228: The new army more feebly dubs them ‘almond rocks’.
[Aus]Queenslander (Brisbane) 27 Mar. 3/5: ‘Almond rocks’ for socks.
[US](con. 1920s) D. Mackenzie Hell’s Kitchen 216: It was not often we had to use socks when we were out on a job. Fancy paying sevenpence each time for a pair of ‘almond rocks’.
[UK]‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl.
[UK]L. Payne private coll. n.p.: Socks Almond Rocks.
[UK]I. & P. Opie Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 344: ‘Almond rocks’ for socks.
[UK]J. Gosling Ghost Squad 25: Thieves’ argot, spoken properly, is a foreign language which needs to be learned [...] Among the words and phrases derived from rhyming slang are: [...] ‘Almonds’ equals almond rock (sock).
[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 12: ’Is plates o’ meat pen and ink. ’Is almond rocks must be reels of cotton.
[Aus]J. McNeill Old Familiar Juice (1973) 82: dadda: You forgot me socks [...] Almond rocks .
[UK] (ref. to 1930s) R. Barnes Coronation Cups and Jam Jars 104: I’ve worn out Gawd knows how many pairs of Almond Rocks.
[Aus]R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 17: Almond Rocks Socks.
[Aus]Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Almond rocks. Rhyming slang for socks.
[Aus]Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 almond rocks: a pair of socks.
[NZ]D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 6/2: almond rocks n. socks.
[UK]P. Baker Fabulosa 288/2: almond rocks socks.
[UK]R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 133: Filled with rotting munja, dirty almond-rocks, luppernail clippings [...] dead rats and French letters.