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dear john letter

n. A letter from a wife or girlfriend to her husband or boyfriend, informing that the relationship is over. Usually precipitated by the writer's having met a third party.

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Dear John letter

A "Dear John letter" is a letter written, originally to a soldier overseas, by his wife or girlfriend to inform him their relationship is over, usually because the other has found another lover.

Usage examples of "dear john letter".

Then the latest candidate for the post of Jack Parlabane's Assassin had walked in to receive his Dear John letter.

Does any of this square with a man utterly shattered by a Dear John letter?

Somebody must have told her where I was, and she came to personally deliver Part Two of the Dear John letter she started on the phone last night.

He set it on the bar and scanned the pertinent chapter quickly, unwilling to actually read or comprehend any more of it, like someone who has got a Dear John letter or a telegram about a death.