Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crying game

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

Syllables: cry-ing game
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Informal

name

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

Informal

Example Sentences

"It's only when you remove all remnants of the guy from your life that you can move on. No Contact. Until you are completely over the guy, avoid all contact. If the guy's an asshole, he'll try to contact you, and probably run the crying game on you."
"Waaaaa! Waaaaa! If you let it, life can become nothing more than a crying game that is void of accountability and void of responsibility."
"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."
"We copped a feel of the technical beta of Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10, and beneath the slick new interface we found a Crying Game-scale surprise that has the potential to lure insatiable music grazers away from iTunes (which has now sold more than 100 million tracks)."
"“Fair enough. So you didn't know I was a man?” “I'd guess you'd call this my personal Crying Game moment.”"

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.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

crying games (plural)

Phrases

cry someone a river

Frequently Paired Words

cry someone a river nakige wambulance

Questions

What does crying game mean?: A situation where someone cries in a spiteful, self-indulgent, or attention-seeking manner.
Where does crying game come from?: 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.

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