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Tearjerker

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, television episode, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending, so termed because it suggests one is likely to cry during its performance. informal

    "Renamed in honor of the tube tearjerker, the work wondrously went on to become the most recognized theme in all of soapdom."

  2. 2
    an excessively sentimental narrative wordnet

Etymology

From tear + jerker.

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