noun
- movies, books, or stories that are designed to make people cry or feel very sad
Usage: informal; plural form of tearjerker
Examples
- She loves watching tearjerkers on rainy afternoons.
- The bookstore has a whole section dedicated to tearjerkers.
- Those old movies are real tearjerkers that always make me emotional.
- He avoids tearjerkers because they make him too sad.
- The film festival featured several tearjerkers about family relationships.
- My sister collects tearjerkers and has dozens of sad movies.