tear-jerker

tear-jerker
tear-jerker 1911, in reference to newspaper stories about tragic situations, on model of soda-jerker and perhaps especially beer-jerker, from TEAR (Cf. tear) (n.1) + JERK (Cf. jerk) (v.).

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