shotgun wedding | Idiomator

Meaning: (slang,idiomatic)Aweddingin which thebrideis alreadypregnant.2012, Charles W. Dunn,American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky,→ISBN,page48:If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember ashotgun weddingand even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.; (slang,idiomatic)Aweddingwhich is madein hasteor underduress.; (slang,idiomatic)Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or concepts.2021, Michio Kaku,The God Equation:But all this fails when we try to have ashotgun weddingbetween the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.

Examples:

EN: You ain't scared of no shotgun wedding, are you?
ES: ¿Te asusta casarte a punta de escopeta?
EN: Tomorrow at high noon, a shotgun wedding.
ES: Mañana al mediodía, un casamiento a la fuerza.
EN: I think it would be nice to have a shotgun wedding.
ES: Una boda escopetada sería bonita.
EN: Huh? Well, I declare if that ain't a shotgun wedding...
ES: Lleva un rifle que...
EN: Well, there's nothing wrong with a shotgun wedding if it's your own shotgun.
ES: No hay nada de malo en casarse con una escopeta, si es tuya.
EN: There was due cause, as the priest said at the shotgun wedding!
ES: Fue necesario, como dijo el cura en la boda precipitada.
EN: - 10 to one it's a shotgun wedding.
ES: Diez a uno a que se tiene que casar
EN: They had what is known as a shotgun wedding.
ES: Se casaron, digamos de apuro.
EN: Oh, a shotgun wedding!
ES: Se casaron de apuro...
EN: Not a shotgun wedding?
ES: ¿No será una boda de penalty?
EN: you know what that means? we'll just have to have a shotgun wedding, drop out of school.
ES: Tendremos una boda a punta de pistola, abandonaremos la escuela.
EN: Nice little intimate shotgun wedding, 12-gauge, I think it was.
ES: En una ceremonia íntima con escopeta. Creo que era calibre.12.
EN: It will have to be a shotgun wedding.
ES: Pero la boda tendrá que ser a punta de pistola.
EN: Looks like it's gonna be a shotgun wedding, hon.
ES: Parece que será una ceremonia apurada, cariño.
EN: Not unless it's a shotgun wedding.
ES: No a menos que sea un matrimonio forzoso.

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