Cheshire Grin
A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50, forced smile 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.
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.
The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1920s and 30s.
In modern fiction, the Glasgow smile has become a characteristic physical feature of some incarnations of the Batman rogue Joker, most famously in Heath Ledger's interpretation, and of the yakuza boss Masao Kakihara, from the manga Ichi the Killer.
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