shotgun marriage:

Or: shotgun-wedding , a marriage into which one or both partners are forced, usually because the bride is pregnant .
See Also: a vinculo matrimonii, agaptism, bone of one's bone and flesh of one's flesh, bust up, closed marriage, commitment ceremony, connubium, extramarital, gametophobia, gamophobia, hit-and-run marriage, intermarriage, knot that binds, the, life contract, living in sin, long-term relationship, love match, married country style, marry-making, misogamist, more or less married, propose, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, troth, united, united in holy bedlock, wedded, without benefit of who cares

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