Crying Game

crying game English 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. Proper noun 1 en informal often _ used attributively A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity. en 2002 David Payton I Dreamed I Killed Osama Bin Laden https://books.google.com/books?id=osgT_2onUkMC&pg=PT37&dq=%22crying+game%22 Trafford 9781553692614 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. en 2004 Hands on Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10 Maximum PC September https://books.google.com/books?id=bAIAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=%22a+crying+game%22 15 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). en 2015 Harlan Coben Missing You https://books.google.com/books?id=Te8PAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT220&dq=%22crying+game%22 Dutton 2014 9780698148635 “Fair enough. So you didn't know I was a man?”“I'd guess you'd call this my personal Crying Game moment.” en en LGBTQ Transgender