Usually means: Very close range, no aiming.
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  1. point blank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. point-blank: Merriam-Webster
  3. point-blank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. point-blank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. point-blank, point-blank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. point-blank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Point-Blank, Point-blank, point-blank: Wordnik
  8. point-blank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. point-blank, point blank: Wiktionary
  10. point-blank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. point-blank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. point-blank: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Point-blank, point-blank, point blank: Dictionary.com
  14. point blank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. point-blank: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Point-blank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. point-blank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. point-blank: Rhymezone
  20. Point-blank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Point-blank: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. point-blank: FreeDictionary.org
  23. point-blank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. point-blank: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Point-blank: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. point-blank: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Point blank, point-blank: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. point blank: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. point blank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Point Blank, point blank (RP): Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (point blank)

adjective:  The distance between a gun and a target such that it requires minimal effort in aiming it. In particular no allowance needs to be made for effects of gravity, target movement or wind in aiming the projectile.
adjective:  Blunt, outright.
adverb:  Horizontally (as the angle at which a projectile is launched); directly or straight (at the target).
adverb:  (idiomatic) Directly; bluntly; without pretense or caution.

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