What Does Peaky Blinders Mean?
Peaky Blinders has gone along for the ride of the longstanding rumor that the gang was named for their habit of sewing razor blades into their flat caps. You know, the caps they swiftly remove from their heads to blind or disfigure their opponents with a slash. Yeah, “ouch” is right.
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But the truth behind the name isn’t as gory. Circumstantial evidence makes this tale seem unlikely. To begin, disposable razor blades were relatively new to the U.K. during the last decade of the 1800s, when the Peaky Blinders were active. According to historian Carl Chinn, they were an expensive luxury item who wrote the book Peaky Blinders: The Legacy.