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shotgun wedding

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shotgun wedding
n
Informal a wedding into which one or both partners are coerced, usually because the woman is pregnant
Translations
shotgun wedding n (fam) → matrimonio riparatore


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It wasn't a shotgun wedding but there were a lot of rifles," joked 94-year-old John, referring to the fact that everyone had to be dressed, armed and ready for action at anytime.
The rural districts of Crow and Lorane southwest of Eugene merged years ago in what Stahl calls "a shotgun wedding that never quite took.
I was born within a year of the wedding (11 months, for those who like to add the figures quickly on their fingers to figure out if it was a shotgun wedding, although I was also over two months premature).
 
 
 
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