Shotgun marriage Idiom
Shotgun marriage
A shotgun marriage, or shotgun wedding, is one that is forced because of pregnancy. It is also used idiomatically for a compromise, agreement or arrangement that is forced upon groups or people by necessity.
shotgun marriage
A alliance that happens bound due to an adventitious pregnancy. We knew it was a shotgun alliance back Frank's new wife had a babyish bristles months afterwards the wedding.Learn more: marriage, shotguna ˌshotgun ˈwedding/ˈmarriage
(old-fashioned, informal) a alliance which takes abode because the woman is pregnantThis announcement apparently refers to the ancestor of a woman, who threatens to shoot the man unless he marries her.Learn more: marriage, shotgun, wedding