![tear-jerker tear-jerker](https://www.tekportal.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/tear-jerker.jpg)
noun Informal.
- a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
noun
- informal an excessively sentimental film, play, book, etc
n.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.).