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tearjerker noun a melodramatic or sentimental and sad story or song US, 1921- It’s Summertime is what it is. The drunks always call during the tearjerkers. — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 21, 1982
- One day he’d write a rousing Good Samaritan column, then a funny man-on-the-street piece, then a tearjerk about some little kid with cancer[.] — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 63, 1986
- [C]omplete the evening by renting a tear-jerker movie. — Marcy Blum, Weddings for Dummies, p. 66, 1997
- Anyway, they were going to let him go but his mother wrote a tear-jerker letter that ended up on my desk. — Something About Mary, 1998
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