Green’s Dictionary of Slang

grocery n.1

[? its suitability for buying groceries]

small change.

[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
[Aus]Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang.
[UK]P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 20: [F]rom a flooring hit, the grocery is falling out of his pocket.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.