English Dictionary

shotgun wedding

名詞

慣用表現 俗語

(idiomatic, slang) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant. / (idiomatic) Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people or organizations.

日本語の意味

（俗語・慣用句）身ごもり状態の花嫁が結婚に至る、つまり妊娠を理由に強制的に行われる結婚 / （慣用句）同様に、何らかの理由で強制的または非自発的に成立した人間関係や組織間のパートナーシップを指す

They decided on a shotgun wedding when they found out she was pregnant.

彼女の妊娠がわかったとき、彼らは妊娠が理由で急いで結婚することにした。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, slang) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.

If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people or organizations.

shotgun weddings （ plural ）