Shotgun wedding
American colloquial expression / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Shotgun wedding (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Celebratory gunfire.
A shotgun wedding is a wedding arranged in response to pregnancy resulting from premarital sex.[1] The phrase is a primarily U.S. colloquialism, termed as such based on a stereotypical scenario in which the father of the pregnant bride-to-be threatens the reluctant groom with a shotgun in order to ensure that he follows through with the wedding.
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