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A shotgun wedding is a wedding arranged in response to a pregnancy. The phrase comes from the figurative imagining that the relatives of the pregnant bride threaten the reluctant male groom with a shotgun in order to ensure that he marries the woman.

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wedding that is arranged to avoid embarrassment due to premarital sex possibly leading to an unintended pregnancy

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