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What is a shotgun wedding?

What is a shotgun wedding? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic, slang) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
  2. (idiomatic) Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people or organizations.
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Populism finds itself in a shotgun wedding with the Lasch theory as a very powerful propagandistic tool.
Seen in that unforgiving light it's difficult to tell if that long love affair was nothing of the sort, but more of a shotgun wedding.
The shotgun wedding of an open source project and a closed source tool was always likely to end in tears, and it finally fell apart, with much recrimination, last week.
Fewer pregnant single women are opting for a shotgun wedding, as well.
They decided to get married months ago, so it's not a shotgun wedding, guys!
While the European Community could still stop it, the legal case for halting this shotgun wedding is looking weaker by the day.

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