Glasgow smile

{{Short description|Scar caused by using a knife to cut near the mouth}}

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Image:Tommy Flanagan March 2012 (cropped).jpg has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow.{{cite web |url=http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/sons-of-anarchy-interview-tommy-flanagan.html |title=Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan on Those Facial Scars, This Final Season, and Chibs |last1= Fretts |first1= Bruce |date=12 November 2014 |website=Vulture|publisher=New York |access-date=12 January 2019}}]]

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.{{cite web|author=Mills, Rod|url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/68037/Surgeon-says-hospitals-treat-a-knife-victim-every-six-hours|work=Daily Express|title=Surgeon Says Hospitals Treat a Knife Victim Every Six Hours|date=27 October 2008|access-date=20 November 2009}}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/city-slicker-glasgow-1616900.html|title=City Slicker Glasgow|work=The Independent|access-date=20 November 2009| location=London | first=John |last=Arlidge |date=24 April 1995}}

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.{{citation |title=Maxillofacial trauma and esthetic facial reconstruction |page=555 |author1=Peter Ward Booth |author2=Barry L. Eppley |author3=Rainer Schmelzeisen |year=2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tdpAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Churchill Livingstone|isbn=9780443071249 }}

The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1920s and 30s.{{cite news|url= http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/razor-gangs-ruled-the-streets-but-even-960790 |title=Razor gangs ruled the streets but even in the violence of pre-war years, one man stood out|date=19 October 2007 |author=McKay, Reg |work=Daily Record|location=Glasgow|access-date=12 January 2019}}