shotgun wedding

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant. idiomatic,slang
    — 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.
  2. A wedding made in haste or under duress. idiomatic,slang
  3. Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or concepts. idiomatic,slang
    — But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.

词形变化

shotgun weddings plural

词汇关系

相关词
shotgun marriage white wedding grass widow

词源

From the implication that the groom was forced to the altar by shotgun-wielding relatives of the bride.
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