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weepie

American  
[wee-pee] / ˈwi pi /

noun

British Informal.
  1. a tearjerker; weeper.


Etymology

Origin of weepie

First recorded in 1925–30; weep 1 + -ie

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He noted how there were "giant laughs for Hugh Grant" but that the "weepie sequel is strangely dazed".

From BBC Feb. 17, 2025

That movie was, for me, the year’s best, a sublime ghost story in which a parent-child weepie and an achingly tender romance are layered into a kind of metaphysical mille-feuille.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2023

It refuses to build to the kind of operatic weepie Brown himself wouldn’t respect.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2022

The first film is a weepie, co-scripted by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage, based on Michael Ausiello’s hilarious, heartbreaking 2018 memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2022

For most of their runs, the NBC weepie and ABC family sitcom kept network programming on the Emmys radar.

From Washington Post Jul. 12, 2022

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