Glasgow smile

A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50 or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile.^[2]^[3]

The act is usually performed with a utility knife or a piece of broken glass, leaving a scar which causes the victim to appear to be smiling broadly.^[4]

The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1920s and 30s.^[5]

Notable victims

Agustín Lara (1897–1970), Mexican composer
William Joyce (1906–1946), American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during World War II
Elizabeth Short (1924��1947), also known as Black Dahlia, an American woman found murdered in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California
Lee Seung-bok (1959–1968), a nine-year-old South Korean boy murdered by North Korean commandos
Tommy Flanagan (born 1965), a Scottish actor

References

^ Fretts, Bruce (12 November 2014). "Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan on Those Facial Scars, This Final Season, and Chibs". Vulture. New York. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ Mills, Rod (27 October 2008). "Surgeon Says Hospitals Treat a Knife Victim Every Six Hours". The Daily Express. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
^ Arlidge, John (24 April 1995). "City Slicker Glasgow". The Independent. London. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
^ Peter Ward Booth; Barry L. Eppley; Rainer Schmelzeisen (2003), Maxillofacial trauma and esthetic facial reconstruction, Churchill Livingstone, p. 555, ISBN 9780443071249
^ McKay, Reg (19 October 2007). "Razor gangs ruled the streets but even in the violence of pre-war years, one man stood out". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

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[1] Fretts, Bruce (12 November 2014). "Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan on Those Facial Scars, This Final Season, and Chibs". Vulture. New York. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

[2] Mills, Rod (27 October 2008). "Surgeon Says Hospitals Treat a Knife Victim Every Six Hours". The Daily Express. Retrieved 20 November 2009.

[3] Arlidge, John (24 April 1995). "City Slicker Glasgow". The Independent. London. Retrieved 20 November 2009.

[4] Peter Ward Booth; Barry L. Eppley; Rainer Schmelzeisen (2003), Maxillofacial trauma and esthetic facial reconstruction, Churchill Livingstone, p. 555, ISBN 9780443071249

[5] McKay, Reg (19 October 2007). "Razor gangs ruled the streets but even in the violence of pre-war years, one man stood out". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

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