to splice

Examples

• All

• Husbands and wives loving each as they said they would when they were spliced.

  Street Scene (1931)

• After years of dating, they finally spliced in a lovely outdoor wedding.

• - Will you splice hands on it?

  Moby Dick (1956)

• -They are spliced together for life.

  The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

• - You know, in case you got spliced.

  Star Trek Beyond (2016)

• She got spliced to dad when she was 16.

  The Leather Boys (1964)

• Hey, you know, I can't believe we're spliced.

  The Leather Boys (1964)

• Over in Rainbow Valley, there's a couple just aching to be spliced.

  Finian's Rainbow (1968)

• I'm gettin' spliced!

  Sweet Charity (1969)

• Many of their friends gathered to watch as they spliced under the archway of flowers.

Synonyms

M

to marry

vsto splice

656 1.6

To perform a ceremony to join two people as partners

refers informally to joining as spouses rather than performing the ceremony

W

to wed

vsto splice

• Formal

24 2.8

To marry someone in a ceremony

is an informal word used for that formal ceremony

Idioms

S

to splice the mainbrace

• Archaic

9.9

To have an alcoholic drink to celebrate, often on a ship

Surface Forms

Etymology