tear-jerker

See also: tearjerker and tear jerker

English

Noun

tear-jerker (plural tear-jerkers)

1. Alternative spelling of tearjerker.
   • 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:

     The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.