crying game

noun

Etymology

From the 1992 film The Crying Game, which features a scene in which a man discovers that his lover, implicitly presented up to that point as a cis woman, is in fact a pre-op/non-op trans woman.

Definitions

  1. A situation where someone cries in a spiteful, self-indulgent, or attention-seeking…

    A situation where someone cries in a spiteful, self-indulgent, or attention-seeking manner.

    • Waaaaa! Waaaaa! If you let it, life can become nothing more than a crying game that is void of accountability and void of responsibility.
  2. A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected…

    A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity.

    • Man, what a way to pop a balloon full of promise! It was like waiting to be with the girl of your dreams and you end up in the Crying Game.
    • “Fair enough. So you didn't know I was a man?” “I'd guess you'd call this my personal Crying Game moment.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA