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shotgun wedding

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a shotgun wedding (British, American & Australian, old-fashioned, 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: wedding

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