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In some senses, waterworks is marked as figuratively, informal, British, euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
Any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system.
She is employed by a waterworks at the outskirts of the city.
Often in the form turn on the waterworks: crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional.
She turned on the waterworks when we told her the old man was dead, but she was asking questions about the will soon enough.
Rain.
The genitourinary system.