shotgun wedding
nounEtymology
From the implication that the groom was forced to the altar by shotgun-wielding relatives of the bride.
Definitions
A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
A wedding made in haste or under duress.
Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or…
Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or concepts.
- But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.
The neighborhood
- neighborshotgun marriage
- neighborwhite wedding
- neighborgrass widow
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA