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weeping widow

weeping widow \weeping widow\ n. same as crumblecap.

Usage examples of "weeping widow".

The afternoon he devotes to usury, bankrupting, here, a small tradesman, there, a weeping widow, for fun and profit.

Besides, a guy like this is just going to wind up with a bullet in the neck and a weeping widow, and he's liable to take someone with him.

Then Mabel had again turned into the weeping widow and bemoaned her fate with buckets of tears and enough hysterics for a revival meeting and nothing turned them off but to console her in bed.

O, but that will get you in the ground right quick and make yer wife a weeping widow!