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tearjerker

[teer-jur-ker]

tear·jerk·er

[teer-jur-ker]
noun Informal.
a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.

Origin:
1930–35; tear1 + jerk1 + -er1

tear·jerk·ing, adjective
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Tearjerker is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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tearjerker

noun
an excessively sentimental narrative 
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