tearjerker: Meaning and Definition of

tear•jerk•er

Pronunciation: (tēr'jûr"kur), [key]
— n. Informal.
  1. a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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