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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