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☆ shotgun wedding

a wedding into which one or both partners are forced, as because of previous sexual intimacy or, esp., pregnancy

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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