shotgun weddings
Pregnancy-prompted marriages
Shotgun weddings are marriages that happen because the bride is pregnant, with the implication that the groom was pressured into it—traditionally by the bride's father, gun in hand.
The term now applies more broadly to any hasty union forced by circumstances: The merger was a shotgun wedding between two failing companies.
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