shotgun wedding
noun/ˌʃɒtɡʌn ˈwedɪŋ/
/ˌʃɑːtɡʌn ˈwedɪŋ/
(also shotgun marriage)
(old-fashioned, informal)- a wedding that has to take place quickly because the woman is pregnantTopics Life stagesc2
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