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splice v To join with others in the purchase and drinking of liquor.
   1929 BURKE [21] "We'll Have to Splice to Get it Drink": And then the poor devil / A drink trying to bum / When the boys have no money / To splice for the Rum. C 66-8 Two or three people, or possibly four, will pool their money and buy a bottle between them. In sharing it they don't say 'We shared it' but 'We spliced it.'

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