splay

Definitions

General English

• verb to spread fingers or legs apart

Construction

• To form with an oblique angle, or to bevel.
• To spread out or extend.

Slang

• noun marihuana. A word of obscure origin used by schoolchildren and students.
• verb to have sex (with). The vulgarism invariably applies to male sexual activity. It has been recorded in use among Californian pornographers and prostitutes and may have originated as photographers’ jargon, from ‘splay-shot’, employing the standard word (itself a Middle English clipping of ‘display’).

Nearby Definitions of “splay”

• spit
• spiv
• splash
• splash page
• splash screen
• splay
• spleen
• splice
• splicing tape
• spliff
• spline

Contexts for “splay”

5 definitions in context
• General English
• Construction
• Slang