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shot'gun wed'ding




1. a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
2. Informal.a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity: The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding. Also,shot'gun mar'riage.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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