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n. 1 (context countable English) A marriage beginning with (resulting from) a shotgun wedding. 2 (context countable English) A shotgun wedding itself. 3 (context uncountable English) Such marriages, or such weddings, taken collectively. 4 (context countable and uncountable English) (non-gloss definition: Used figuratively.)
Usage examples of "shotgun marriage".
The housekeeper had told him as much and no more, except that it had been a shotgun marriage which had merely deepened the mystery, shotguns in Lockhart's experience being reserved for putting things to death rather than bringing them to life.
English Electric had been a nationalized conglomerate formed by the PSP, a shotgun marriage between a dozen disparate 'ware companies.
Ken and Sam both tried their hardest to be sincerely glad for the guy, but it got a little hard to deal with at timesfor Ken, because he was so relentlessly alone, and for Sam because hed been roped into a loveless shotgun marriage when a former girlfriend, Mary Lou Morrison, showed up four months pregnant.