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Dear John; Dear John letter; Johnny letter
noun
a letter from a woman to her husband or boyfriend ending their relationship US, 1945- She left me about a year ago. I got a Dear John. — Norman Mailer, Naked and Dead, p. 316, 1948
- “Leave a girl behind, get a Dear John?” — Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, p. 181, 1948
- — American Speech, p. 303, December 1955: “Wayne university slang”
- 389 pieces of mail (which included one birth announcement and three Dear Johns) received. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 121, 1976
- She wrote him a Dear John last month. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 39, 1981
- Hey, Crutcher, I hear you got a Dear John from your gal. — Platoon, 1986
- They all tensed up. They knew the sound well. Someone receiving a Dear John letter[.] — Odie Hawkins, Great Lawd Buddha, p. 44, 1990
- Aboard the nuclear-powered carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, with a crew of 5,000, the chaplains spent hours last Sunday night counseling men who’d received one version or another of the dreaded “Dear John” lettter. — Washington Times, 1 February 1991
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 66, 1996
- In Baghdad, the worst of the fighting over and the soldiers bunking in a former train station, the mail watch began again. A letter arrived for Tielbar and he recognized it wasn’t what he’d hoped. It was a “Dear John” letter. She couldn’t wait any longer. — Hartford (Connecticut) Courant, p. 6, 9 November 2003
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