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Definition of shotgun marriage in English: shotgun marriage(also shotgun wedding) noun informal An enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant. 〈非正式〉(尤指因新娘已怀孕而举行的)强制结婚;匆忙结婚 Example sentencesExamples - While the European Community could still stop it, the legal case for halting this shotgun wedding is looking weaker by the day.
- In terms of mergers, unions do need to be more powerful, but you also can't have shotgun weddings in labor.
- A spokesman for the circus said: ‘This is not so much a shotgun wedding but a wedding at knife point.’
- Seen in that unforgiving light it's difficult to tell if that long love affair was nothing of the sort, but more of a shotgun wedding.
- The couple didn't so much mind the shotgun wedding, but it created a nightmare of paperwork and legal wrangling.
- Populism finds itself in a shotgun wedding with the Lasch theory as a very powerful propagandistic tool.
- Fewer pregnant single women are opting for a shotgun wedding, as well.
- The shotgun wedding of an open source project and a closed source tool was always likely to end in tears, and it finally fell apart, with much recrimination, last week.
- Cross-cultural misunderstandings and tensions within these civil-military shotgun marriages have led many on both sides to long for a divorce.
- For that reason, avoid shotgun weddings that outside forces try to arrange for you.
- Well, it says here that Hawkins was carrying out an illegal shotgun marriage.
- It's a shotgun wedding of the grooming categories.
- He looks like a teenager at his shotgun wedding.
- I got panned in The Sunday Times by Gill who called me a failed footballer who had a shotgun wedding and we had to sue.
- The negative consequences of this shotgun marriage of finance and culture are obvious.
- At the same time it mixed its wry, tearstained tales of shotgun weddings, small town love and ambitions with a dexterity, slickness and humour that ensured they were now a world class act.
- A shotgun wedding ensues and, after a honeymoon in the big city, Fausto finds himself railroaded into a store clerk job by his helpful father-in-law.
- They decided to get married months ago, so it's not a shotgun wedding, guys!
- There will always be traditionalists who like the idea of a big ceremony and there will always be shotgun weddings too.
- The proposed merger is a shotgun marriage, the result of a deal negotiated in secret by a small cabal of party leaders and in response to extraordinary pressure from Canada's corporate elite.
Definition of shotgun marriage in US English: shotgun marriage(also shotgun wedding) nounˈˌSHätˌɡən ˈmerij informal An enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant. 〈非正式〉(尤指因新娘已怀孕而举行的)强制结婚;匆忙结婚 Example sentencesExamples - I got panned in The Sunday Times by Gill who called me a failed footballer who had a shotgun wedding and we had to sue.
- For that reason, avoid shotgun weddings that outside forces try to arrange for you.
- A spokesman for the circus said: ‘This is not so much a shotgun wedding but a wedding at knife point.’
- Populism finds itself in a shotgun wedding with the Lasch theory as a very powerful propagandistic tool.
- He looks like a teenager at his shotgun wedding.
- At the same time it mixed its wry, tearstained tales of shotgun weddings, small town love and ambitions with a dexterity, slickness and humour that ensured they were now a world class act.
- They decided to get married months ago, so it's not a shotgun wedding, guys!
- The couple didn't so much mind the shotgun wedding, but it created a nightmare of paperwork and legal wrangling.
- It's a shotgun wedding of the grooming categories.
- The proposed merger is a shotgun marriage, the result of a deal negotiated in secret by a small cabal of party leaders and in response to extraordinary pressure from Canada's corporate elite.
- Fewer pregnant single women are opting for a shotgun wedding, as well.
- The shotgun wedding of an open source project and a closed source tool was always likely to end in tears, and it finally fell apart, with much recrimination, last week.
- Seen in that unforgiving light it's difficult to tell if that long love affair was nothing of the sort, but more of a shotgun wedding.
- There will always be traditionalists who like the idea of a big ceremony and there will always be shotgun weddings too.
- Cross-cultural misunderstandings and tensions within these civil-military shotgun marriages have led many on both sides to long for a divorce.
- The negative consequences of this shotgun marriage of finance and culture are obvious.
- While the European Community could still stop it, the legal case for halting this shotgun wedding is looking weaker by the day.
- Well, it says here that Hawkins was carrying out an illegal shotgun marriage.
- A shotgun wedding ensues and, after a honeymoon in the big city, Fausto finds himself railroaded into a store clerk job by his helpful father-in-law.
- In terms of mergers, unions do need to be more powerful, but you also can't have shotgun weddings in labor.
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