NL here. "Shotgun" is a concept, though mostly through Pop Culture Osmosis.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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Years ago I read "shotgun wedding" and thought it was common to see a guy having to marry a girl he fucked while her father was there at the side with a rifle.
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It means "quick marriage because the bride is pregnant" and that is 100% the origin of the phrase.
Particularly in poorer, rural parts of the USA having a child out of wedlock was incredibly shameful, and the financial burden of a single motherhood was intolerable. So the bride's family would ensure the man responsible married their daughter ... regardless of how he felt about it. Sometimes that meant having a shotgun at the wedding to ensure he didn't run off.
After thw wedding is done the father goes "And kid you'd be no smoking anymore get me? I don't wanna hear you went to buy a pack or whatever..."
It's still relevant. I always hand my passengers a pistol before disembarking.
In Australia: yes and it's commonplace. But like 70% of our media is American so unsurprising.
You're basically americans with going outside instead of corn.
Shotgun is an America thing, coming from the stagecoach era. The shotgun in question has a shortened barrel for reduced storage footprint.
The BMW R12 has a sidecar mounted with an MG 42 light machine gun. But no-one calls sidecar gunner
That is purely an American thing.
Not saying my family had someone in the passenger seat with a shotgun to protect their batch of white lightning...also not saying they didn't.
Nope. Canada had stagecoach and shotguns too. So did Mexico. The Sundance Kid owned a bar in Calgary at one point, and worked out at the Bar U ranch near Calgary before that.
n't.
That's like an amazing American showerthought, I never even considered it
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