The story
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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crying game
Today it means: A situation where someone cries in a spiteful, self-indulgent, or attention-seeking manner. Full definition →