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One rushing to get hold of Charlie’s weepie film
Answer for the clue "One rushing to get hold of Charlie’s weepie film ", 11 letters:
tear-jerker
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Word definitions for tear-jerker in dictionaries
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n. (alternative spelling of tearjerker English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1911, in reference to newspaper stories about tragic situations, on model of soda-jerker and perhaps especially beer-jerker , from tear (n.1) + jerk (v.).
Usage examples of tear-jerker.
And most of those families, despite the occasional tear-jerker news report, don't have both parents in harm's way.
The others all give the same old tear-jerker that they didn't have it, that our assessments were too stiff for their take, and so on, but Ninety Two didn't, this time.
She had rheumatism and she complained about the rough riding of the wagons, but on stage her old tear-jerkers could still reach any crowd she played to.