Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) tears.

1897		E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 89: De lady never jollied her, only just had weeps in her eyes.
1908		K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xiii: She shed so many weeps in my makeup box that I had to put it on with an atomizer.

2. as the weeps, tearfulness, crying, thus pull the weeps, to cry.

1909		Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 11 Sept. 20/1: The ‘weeps’ were audible [...] They weren’t boisterous ’weeps’, being muffled by [...] handkerchiefs.
1913		J. London Valley of the Moon (1914) 287: It’s a kind of a sobby song. It used to always give Mamie the weeps.
1914		T.A. Dorgan Indoor Sports 15 July [synd. cartoon] You can’t giggle in that part. You’re supposed to pull the weeps.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 290: And Bob Doran starts doing the weeps about Paddy Dignam, true as you’re here.
1935		C.G. Finney Circus of Dr Lao 51: And don’t go turning on the weeps, either.
1949		I.L. Idriess One Wet Season 167: Old Tom was one of those who get ‘the weeps’ when his favourite song is sung.
1959		Murtagh & Harris Who Live In Shadow (1960) 52: The weed’ll help you come on, kid. It’ll help the weeps and it’ll help the laughs.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 241: I get the weeps just thinking about it!

3. (US tramp) a hard-luck story.

1949

Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 244: turn on the weeps To tell a hard luck story.