When one is so overcome with emotion that he or she makes a noise akin to a whale getting stabbed through with a hot poker and dragged several miles by a racing speedboat before getting forcibly beached onto a remote island where the beach has sharp, pointy rocks instead of sand.

Alternatively defined as: Regular whale noises amplified in a sobbing manner by an emotionally compromised human being.
Your favorite character in that show you've been watching for five years dies at the end.
-DYING WHALE NOISES-
or
Your celebrity crush bumps into you in a coffeeshop AND ACTUALLY CARESSES YOUR ARM and smiles at you and everything.
-DYING WHALE NOISES-
by DGMerls February 6, 2013
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