"cryfest" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "The Sin of Madelon Claudet was another hugely successful exemplar of the crime-and-punishment cryfests that shopgirls and housewives took to heart.",
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          "ref": "2002 May 26, Dave Gathman, “Movie Review”, in The Beacon News, Aurora, Illinois:",
          "text": "But if heartfelt, sensitive, talky, emotional cryfests have become scarce at the multiplex, we also have seen the rise of the He-Woman, the battling babe who can tote that gun and sling that punch and close that business deal.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Tom Mallon, Rabbit Songs review, CMJ New Music Monthly, July 2002, page 42",
          "text": "Main songwriter and pianist Dan Messe makes each song a regret-soaked cryfest, […]"
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        "(informal) Something sad or moving, especially a film."
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          "ref": "1997, Anne Voelckers Palumbo, The Stay-At-Home Mom's Survival Guide, White-Boucke Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "Knowing that I had but seconds left before my kid exploded into a full-blown cryfest and knowing that I absolutely had to have an article of clothing that could camouflage baby barf, I raced to the register with my sapling tucked under my arm.",
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          "ref": "2010, Gregg Olsen, A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 234:",
          "text": "Tears were a part of who he was. But this wasn't the usual cryfest. It was a deluge.",
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          "ref": "2011, Jennifer Ziegler, Sass & Serendipity, Ember, →ISBN, pages 65–66:",
          "text": "Her eyes were raw and crusted from her big cryfest the day before, which had lasted late into the evening.",
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        "An episode of intense crying."
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        "(informal) An episode of intense crying."
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          "text": "Main songwriter and pianist Dan Messe makes each song a regret-soaked cryfest, […]"
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        "An episode of intense crying."
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