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ugly cry (third-person singular simple present ugly cries, present participle ugly crying, simple past and past participle ugly cried)

  1. (slang, intransitive) To weep to the extent that one's face contorts.
    • 2019, M. L. Aiken, Lucky Beginnings: Blue Moon Valley: The story of Tom and Maggie:
      [] and then she grabbed onto his shirt and cried, he held her and tried to calm her, but knew that she just needed to ugly cry, for a while.
    • 2019, Melissa Maimone, The Radiant Midnight, page 60:
      And if I'm in line at the grocery store, I don't want to ugly cry. So in situations like that, I avoid my friends. I will try to breeze past them in the frozen food aisle.

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