Definition of "tear-drop" [tear-drop]

• A small air-cavity blown into glass. (noun)
• A tear. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And that small tear-drop profile has nailed everything from stockers to Montana cutthroats better than anything else I've ever used."
• "I can, however, spot a jailhouse or prison tattoo at five thousand paces, and I was not all that thrilled about seeing my daughter with a guy sporting a tear-drop on his cheek and a spiderweb on his elbow."
• "Trail, an undertaking that involved more than 30,000 people of all ethnicities, social classes and political stripes, walked 670 kilometers over the course of 27 days from Dondra in the South to Point Pedro, the Northernmost part of an island shaped like a tear-drop."