crockery n.
1. (US) teeth.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 10 June 2/4: He not only threatened the china man that he would pull off his top knot, but subsequently took a poker to astonish his crockery with. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Bowery Life [ebook] ‘Extract of what?’ asked de wise guy, showing his crockery wid a gas laugh. | |
| ‘Little Miss Marker’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 298: Regret [...] sticks his finger in her mouth to get a peek at her crockery. | |
| ‘Death Ends the Scene’ Hollywood Detective May 🌐 My crockery started chattering like dice in a washtub. | |
| , | | DAS. |
| Hartford Courant (CT) sect. D 5 Sept. 27/3: G’Day from Down Under [...] Take more than a passing insult [...] to get me narkie enough to [...] send you to the fang merchant for some new crockery. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
2. (Aus.) false teeth.
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiii 4/4: crockery: Flash [sic ] teeth. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a crockery seller.
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 11 Sept. 3/1: Chingaring and Appee, two brother crockery Jacks. | |
 | Sun. Mag. 272: For instance, Crockery Jack was a hawker of crockery ; and Donkey Smith was the proprietor, manager, and driver of three or four donkeys. | |
| Englishmen at Home 66: There is a Prince of the costers, who sometimes attends the Mission Hall, and he is generally called ‘Crockery Jack’. |