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shotgun marriage
(shot|gun mar|riage)
(also
shotgun wedding
)
noun
informal
an enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant:
figurative
their vision of Europe is fundamentally different from ours and a shotgun marriage would be in nobody’s interests
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