gunpoint
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- noun
- /ˈɡʌnˌpɔɪnt/
- NSFW
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a punta de pistola
- How can you have a dialogue with a person who is holding you at gunpoint?
- hold someone at gunpoint
- force someone at gunpoint
And of course, cops came and by gunpoint demand that she stop poaching.
- And of course, cops came and by gunpoint demand that she stop poaching.
- Armed guards rushed out and held the men at gunpoint.
- And, you know, are we being told that it is wrong to kill a family, an entire family at gunpoint, but it's OK to shell them to death?
- Leonardo DiCaprio finds out Simon Hansu's got this massive diamond hidden and at gunpoint takes him to dig up this diamond.
- And my cousin Sanga Willis was murdered and he was, he was shot at gunpoint during a robbery.
- And we took all that stuff off and got him at gunpoint.
- If you force me at gunpoint like an American to buy one of these things?
- And eight days after a kids are murdered, she says she was carjacked by three guys and held at gunpoint and they shot the kids.
- But if I were to force you at gunpoint, do you have a gun?
- And what they do is they will rescue kids at gunpoint from human traffickers, the really bad people that are doing horrendous things to kids.
- After a few days, they a car pulls up at gunpoint, orders him into the car.
Examples
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If you force me at gunpoint like an American to buy one of these things?
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And now for mine, I once got robbed at gunpoint at a gas station.
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So it's, I mean, on the drive back to the airport, on my way out, we got stopped at gunpoint, right?
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Have you never been at gunpoint before?
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Ten guys storm in here, broad daylight, force us to the ground at gunpoint.
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Then the police marched everyone at gunpoint, hands in the air, back out into the gas.
Academic text (2001) -
He held my family at gunpoint.
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I've been mugged twice, once at gunpoint.
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But then the robbers track Ellen down, hold her up at gunpoint, and kidnap her.
Blog text (10) -
The store clerk was terrified when the robber demanded money at gunpoint.
Synonyms
Threatening someone with a knife to force them to do something
A situation of strong threat that forces someone to act against their will
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gunpoint comes from gun + point, meaning the 'point of a gun'. Picture the gun's tip aimed at someone to force them to do something, so to be 'at gunpoint' is to be threatened with a gun.