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MARS BAR, n. Rhyming slang for Eng. scar.Edb. 1994 Irvine Welsh Acid House 239:
Some Mars Bar you've got yourself there, man, Donny says. — You should see the other guy, I say, all cocky.Sc. 1994 Scotsman 12 Feb :
"If we bring someone in for questioning, we are in his life for two hours. He has to live all the other hours of every other day in his scheme. If he co-operates with us, he could get a Mars Bar (scar)."Sc. 2003 Sunday Herald 12 Jan 14/1:
A chib mark, or 'mars bar' to use the west of Scotland rhyming slang, is a wound or scar which is the result of being on the wrong end of some ned's lifestyle option to carry and use a knife, hatchet, cutlass.
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