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单词 shotgun wedding
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
shotgun wedding, 
    1. a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
    2. Informal Termsa compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity:The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding.
    Also, shotgun marriage. 
    • 1925–30, American.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
shotgun wedding n
  1. informal a wedding into which one or both partners are coerced, usually because the woman is pregnant
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