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shotgun weddings

shotgun weddings is the plural of shotgun wedding.

Meaning of shotgun wedding

Noun

shotgun wedding (plural shotgun weddings)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
    • If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 48
  2. (idiomatic, slang) A wedding made in haste or under duress.
  3. (idiomatic, slang) 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.2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation

Questions about shotgun weddings

What is shotgun weddings the plural of?
Shotgun weddings is the plural of shotgun wedding.

Words near shotgun weddings in the dictionary

  1. shotgun shacks
  2. shotgun start
  3. shotgun starts
  4. shotgun surgery
  5. shotgun wedding
  6. shotgun weddings
  7. shotgunlike
  8. shotgunned
  9. shotgunner
  10. shotgunners
  11. shotgunning

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