Noun: exaggerated emotive sobbing after three or more glasses of wine over any subject including lost love, wasted youth, an unrequited crush, family dysfunction or any topic covered on the Lifetime network.

Can also be used as a verb. It should be noted that while many, many of us have practiced this art - no one has mastered it like Taylor Armstrong from the Housewives of Beverly Hills.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods