a crying need meaning

[American slang]
Fig. a definite or desperate need for someone or something.
  There is a crying need for someone to come in and straighten things out.
  All the people in that area have a crying need for a local hospital.

• crying need for:    [American idiom]a ...
• crying:    Adjective: crying& ...
• (there is) no need (to).:    [American slang]Yo ...

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1. there's a crying need for new schools in the big cities.
2. her cleanness and purity had reacted upon him, and he felt in his being a crying need to be clean
3. The Russian economy had a crying need for new investment.
4. There is, therefore, a crying need for new and better tools.
5. I thought there was a crying need for someone to do it right.