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English Wikipedia has an article on:shotgun weddingWikipedia

Etymology

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From the implication that the groom was forced to the altar by shotgun-wielding relatives of the bride.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

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shotgun wedding (plural shotgun weddings)

1. (slang, idiomatic) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
   • 2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 48:If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.
2. (slang, idiomatic) A wedding which is made in haste or under duress.
3. (slang, idiomatic) Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or concepts.
   • 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.

Related terms

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• shotgun marriage

Translations

[edit] wedding in which the bride is pregnant

Chinese: Mandarin: 奉子成婚 (zh) (fèngzǐ chénghūn) Dutch: moetje (nl) n Finnish: haulikkohäät pl French: mariage précipité m German: Mussehe f, Mussheirat f, Musshochzeit f; (more often expressed verbally:) sie mussten heiraten Irish: pósadh práinne m Italian: matrimonio riparatore m Japanese: できちゃった結婚 (dekichatta kekkon), でき婚 (dekikon) Korean: 속도위반 결혼 (sokdowiban gyeolhon) Polish: ślub pod przymusem z ciężarną kobietą m Russian: брак по залёту m (brak po zaljótu) Serbo-Croatian: vjenčanje sačmaricom n, venčanje sačmaricom n, morala se udati (more often expressed verbally) Spanish: penalti (es) m, casarse de penalti m Welsh: priodas glec f, priodas orfod f

See also

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• white wedding
• grass widow

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