Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a tooth, the teeth.

1887		Referee 7 Nov. in DSUE (1984).
1891		G.R. Sims ‘Tottie’ Dagonet Ditties 126: She’d a Grecian ‘I suppose,’ / And of ‘Hampstead Heath’ two rows / In her ‘sunny south’ that glistened / Like two pretty strings of pearls.
1910		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Aug. 4/1: He says the 'Stockton' (cheese) is so 'Wilkie' (hard) that he cannot get his 'Hampsteads' (teeth) into it.
1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl.
1943		M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 110: Sour as castles: nuff ter set orl yer blessed ’Ampsteads on edge.
1959		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: [...] teeth are ‘Hampsteads’ from Hampstead Heath.
1962		R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 34: The rot had set in something horrible with her hampsteads.
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 11: ’Es in a proper two an’ eight – ’e’s lorst ’is ’ampstead ’eath.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1975		D. Nobbs Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976) 51: ‘I need me Edwards seen to.’ ‘Edwards?’ ‘Me Edward Heath. Teeth.’.
1979		F. Norman Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 155: So yuh’d better come yuh guts if yuh wanna ’ang on to yuh ’Ampsteads an’ finger nails.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 6: Hampsteads / Hampstead Heath / Teeth.
1985		S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 120: Blood-red lips gleaming / pouting / stretching over her hard sharp and wicked-looking Hampsteads.
2001		M. Coles Bible in Cockney 92: ’E starts foaming at the north, grindin’ ’is bloomin’ Hampsteads.
2002		D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 ‘Alright, you slag, let’s see if Harry can do something to you which will make you grit your hampstead heath,’ Monica says.
2013		Dabbler 5 Feb. 🌐 My Hampsteads, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof (deceased) what a combination.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 293/2: hampsteads teeth.