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shotgun marriage

(also shotgun wedding)
Definition of shotgun marriage

noun

informal
  • an enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant: figurativetheir vision of Europe is fundamentally different from ours and a shotgun marriage would be in nobody’s interests

shotgun marriage in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of shotgun marriage in the US English dictionary