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a shotgun wedding
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a shotgun wedding  (British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also a shotgun marriage (American old-fashioned)
a marriage that is arranged very quickly because the woman is going to have a baby After a shotgun wedding at 20, she had 3 children before divorcing from her husband.
See also: shotgun, wedding
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Kenya was saved from the abyss by a shotgun marriage between the country's ethnic Kikuyu president, Mwai Kibaki, and his Luo challenger, Raila Odinga, who was given the post of prime minister.
Sons of the Mau Mau by Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
To save it, the British government had suspended its own competition rules and allowed the creation of a banking behemoth through a shotgun marriage with Lloyds TSB.
The US took action in the face of crisis. We must do the same by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
WE all know it was a shotgun marriage when Dewsbury and Huddersfield were forced together for local government purposes to form Kirklees Council.
THE Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Kirklees way; COMMENT by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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