Green’s Dictionary of Slang

crown n.¹

1. the female genital area.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 273/2: latish C.19–20.

2. (US black) a hat.

a.1964		‘Honky-Tonk Bud’ in D. Wepman et al. Life (1976) 54: A candy-striped tie hung down to his fly, / And he sported a gold-dust crown.
1983		N. Heard House of Slammers 86: He wore a candy-striped tie that covered his fly / And was sportin’ a gold-dust crown.
2004		Simon & Pelecanos ‘Slapstick’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 9 [TV script] I hear y’all shot the crown off an old lady’s head yesterday.

3. (US gay) the glans penis.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 104: glans penis; the acorn-like bulb forming the uppermost end of the penis [...] crown.

In compounds

crown and feathers (n.) [ext. feather n. (2); playing on a typical name for a public house]

the pubic hair.

1980

Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 185: Common examples [of sexual ‘addresses’] include Cockshire, Cock Inn, Cupid’s Alley, Hairyfordshire, Crown and Feathers, Shooter’s Hill, Mount Pleasant, Love Lane, etc.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

crown jewels (n.) [their importance to the possessor]

the male genitals.

1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 61: ‘Little German totties waiting to get hold of me.’ [...] ‘After my bloody British crown jewels.’.
1970		J.P. Stanley ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV:1/2 56: crown jewels n Male genitals.
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 241: I’ve got the crown jewels in one hand and my arse in the other.
2000		Guardian Guide 13–19 May 52: A male prostitute is found with his crown jewels cut off.
2003		B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl.
2011		567 Cape Talk on Cape Radio 3 Mar. [radio] He’ll kick me in the crown jewels if I do.

crown office (n.) [a pun on legal SE]

the head.

1673		implied in in the crown-office
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue .
1811		Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Crown Office. The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I s[pun]k[e]d a woman with her a[rs]e upwards, she was so drunk, that her head lay on the ground.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

In phrases

crown of sense (n.)

the vagina.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 158: Honneur, m. The female pudendum; ‘the crown of sense’.

in the crown-office (adj.) [play on SE crown (of the head), which suffers]

tipsy.

1673		M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 81: But you did talk [...] / Of Crowns, when you in the Crown Office were. / Ale makes a bargain and claps hasty hand to’t.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: He is got into the Crown-Office, i.e. He’s got drunk.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1770		Gent.’s Mag. Dec. 559/2: To express the condition of an Honest Fellow [...] under the Effects of good Fellowship, [...] it is also said that he has [...] Been in the Crown Office.