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The apostrophe ['] shows what meaning

Hello,Could any native speaker tell me the meaning of these [']?Daggers' Thacher;A gun's wedding;Can it show having / with ? That a wedding has gun and Thacher has daggers.Can it be associated with the idom of "to look daggers at you" ?
  

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Please supply more context and check your spelling of the original.
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Look, What expression! A slang. "Shotgun Wedding" (I see : the wedding under shotgun)A term for a forced marriage after an unexpected pregnancy.Originating from when the father of the pregnant girl would force the baby's daddy to marry his daughter at gunpoint. This gun was most likely a shotgun as many fathers in the United States were hunters.Bill knocked up Suzie and now they're having a s
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The second story isn't a suggested origin, just a neat 1980s joke at the expense of Margaret Thatcher. She was known by those who disliked her as 'Daggers' Thatcher - not from a reputation for stabbing colleagues in the back, but because she was said to be 'three stops past Barking'. [Dagenham is three stations beyond Barking on the London Underground]
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Hello,What is meaning the apostrophe in "Daggers' Thacher"?Because here the usage of apostrophe is defferent from "gun's wedding"(wedding under gun).
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It is not an apostrophe. It is the 2nd of two single quotation marks. Nicknames are often enclosed in quotation marks:

'Daggers' Thatcher or "Daggers" Thatcher
Leo 'The Lip' Durocher
Charles "Sonny" Liston
etc.
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Thank you for your suggestion has me used to the way of nickname. I had no noting that until you tell me .
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