Usually means: Marriage due to unplanned pregnancy.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word shotgun wedding:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. shotgun wedding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shotgun wedding: Merriam-Webster
  3. shotgun wedding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shotgun wedding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shotgun wedding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shotgun wedding: Wiktionary
  7. shotgun wedding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. shotgun wedding: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. shotgun wedding: Dictionary.com
  10. Shotgun Wedding (album), Shotgun wedding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. shotgun wedding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shotgun wedding: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shotgun wedding: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (shotgun wedding)

noun:  (slang, idiomatic) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
noun:  (slang, idiomatic) A wedding which is made in haste or under duress.
noun:  (slang, idiomatic) Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or concepts.

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