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gay-marry

gay-marry is the alternative spelling of gay marry.

Meaning of gay marry

Verb

gay marry (third-person singular simple present gay marries, present participle gay marrying, simple past and past participle gay married)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To marry (a person of the same sex).
    • Heartache schmartache, I don't want to gay-marry you, oh sizzling Sapphite.2009, anonymous author, Missed Connection with Every Lesbian Girl I've Ever Swooned Over - m4w
  2. (intransitive) To marry a person of the same sex.
    • First, sex doesn't hover cutely over the ceremony, because everyone assumes gay-marrying types are the least-sexual gay people.2004, Greg Wharton, Ian Philips, I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage, page 219
  3. (transitive) To unite in a gay marriage; to unite in marriage to someone of the same sex.
    • Schwarzenegger Basically Admits He's A Democrat
      Clearly the governor is angling for an administration job, which he'll accept once he's finished gay marrying the entire state of California.

Forms of gay-marry

third-person singular presentgay-marries
present participlegay-marrying
past participlegay-married
pastgay-married

Questions about gay-marry

What is gay-marry the alternative spelling of?
Gay-marry is the alternative spelling of gay marry.

Words near gay-marry in the dictionary

  1. gay-hate
  2. gay-in
  3. gay-ins
  4. Gay-Lussac
  5. Gay-Lussac's law
  6. gay-marry
  7. gay-related immune deficiency
  8. gay-related immunodeficiency
  9. gay-shame
  10. gay-shamed
  11. gay-shames

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gay-marry (page history and authors); gay marry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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