Definitions for shotgun wedding
shot·gun wed·ding

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1. shotgun weddingnoun

   A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.

2. shotgun weddingnoun

   Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people or organizations.

3. Etymology: From the implication that the groom was brought to the altar by shotgun-wielding relatives of the bride.

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1. Shotgun wedding

   A shotgun wedding is a wedding which is arranged in order to avoid embarrassment due to premarital sex which can possibly lead to an unintended pregnancy. The phrase is a primarily American 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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1. Shotgun wedding

   A shotgun wedding is a wedding that is arranged to avoid embarrassment due to an unplanned pregnancy, rather than out of the desire of the participants. The phrase is an American colloquialism, though it is also used in other parts of the world, based on a supposed scenario that the father of the pregnant daughter, almost by accepted custom, must resort to using coercion to ensure that the man who impregnated her follows through with the wedding. The use of duress or violent coercion to marry is no longer common in the U.S., although many anecdotal stories and folk songs record instances of such coercion in 18th- and 19th-century America. Often a couple will arrange a shotgun wedding without explicit outside encouragement, and some religious teachings consider it a moral imperative to marry in that situation. One purpose of such a wedding can be to get recourse from the male for the act of impregnation; another reason is to ensure that the child is raised by both parents. In some cases, as in early America and in the Middle East, a major objective was the restoring of social honor to the mother. The practice is also a loophole method of preventing the birth of legally illegitimate children, or if the marriage occurs early enough, to conceal that conception occurred prior to marriage. In some societies the stigma attached to pregnancy out of wedlock can be enormous, and coercive means for gaining recourse are often seen as the prospective father-in-law's "right", and an important, albeit unconventional, coming of age event for the young father-to-be.

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How to pronounce shotgun wedding?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

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   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shotgun wedding in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shotgun wedding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of shotgun wedding in a Sentence

1. Mauricio Santoro:

   Temer may have a honeymoon, but let's not forget this was a shotgun wedding, reforms aren't easy at the best of times and these are for sure not the easiest.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shotgun_Wedding
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_Wedding
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=shotgun wedding