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shotgun wedding

猎枪式婚礼,猎枪婚礼,猎枪式结婚,霰弹枪婚礼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
    • : Informal. a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity: The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding.

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Examples

  • This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

  • Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.

  • Just a week after her divorce, she was invited to a wedding by her sister-in-law.

  • And thus I end up at the bottom of the stairs, about one month after my injury and two months after my wedding.

  • Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

  • This week has been one of great excitement in Weimar, on account of the wedding of the son of the Grand Duke.

  • Of course they would stop for the wedding; but meantime she must be very discreet; she must not intrude too much.

  • The village organist had distinguished himself by his florid rendering of the Wedding March.

  • The wedding breakfast very much resembled the similar festivities at which most of us have assisted.

  • I have always rather wanted to visit California, and started for it once upon a time—on my wedding journey.