Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often
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noun
A situation where someone cries in a spiteful, self-indulgent, or attention-seeking manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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History
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.
