jerker
- n someone who gives a strong sudden pull
- As it emerges from its previous tellings, The Shopworn Angel is still a tear jerker in the grand mannersimple, senile and heroically sentimental.
- He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his .
- But it was a good, tough, well-acted, beautifully designed and photographed movie, sentimental without being squishy, inspiring without being a tear-jerker and featuring honest .