shotgun weddingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the implication that the groom was forced to the altar by shotgun-wielding relatives of the bride.

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shotgun wedding (plural shotgun weddings)

1. (slang, idiomatic) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
   • 2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 48:

     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.

2. (slang, idiomatic) A wedding which is made in haste or under duress.
3. (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 a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.

関連する語

• shotgun marriage

参考

• white wedding
• grass widow