Glasgow smile

A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea smile, or a Glasgow, Chelsea, 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]

"Chelsea grin" redirects here. For the deathcore band, see Chelsea Grin.
"Chelsea smile" redirects here. For the metalcore song by Bring Me the Horizon, see Chelsea Smile (song).
For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation).
Actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow.[1]

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]

See also

Originally called the Manchester Grin as coined by Peter Spiby (deceased 2018), an early founder of the original Quality Street Gang aka QSG of Manchester. The Manchester Grin was said to be the hallmark of Spiby’s violent assaults. The victim would have a bank card inserted sideways inside the mouth, then he would punch the victim in the stomach to make the muscles tighten, making the mouth smaller, the card digs into the skin and makes a "grin" at the sides of the victims mouth: finished off with a sharp kick in the testicles: resulting in lacerations either cheek.

References
  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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