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tear-jerker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of tearjerker.
    alt of tearjerker
    • The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling. 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:

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tear-jerkers Number=Plur lexicographic