tear-jerker

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At 08:06 PM 2/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>The word is obviously a witty play on "sokovyzhimalka",
>a juice-squeezer. I wrote Bruce about this earlier,
>but it surprises me that native Russians don't catch it,
>even if they've never heard it.
Obviously so. I've forgot to write about it.
To Jurij Lotoshko - unlike "slezovyzhimalka", your example was more or less
common in slang (80th, I guess).

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