Meanings
nountear-jerker (plural tear-jerkers)
plural tear-jerkers
- alternativeAlternative spelling 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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