Usually means: Threatened with a firearm aimed.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word gunpoint:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunpoint: Merriam-Webster
  2. gunpoint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gunpoint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gunpoint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gunpoint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gunpoint, gunpoint: Wordnik
  7. gunpoint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gunpoint: Wiktionary
  9. gunpoint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gunpoint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gunpoint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gunpoint: Dictionary.com
  13. gunpoint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gunpoint (film), Gunpoint (video game), Gunpoint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. gunpoint: Rhymezone
  16. gunpoint: FreeDictionary.org
  17. gunpoint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. gunpoint: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. gunpoint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gunpoint: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gunpoint: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gunpoint)

▸ noun:  A location in the front of the muzzle of a gun.
▸ noun:  Threat or coercion by display or aiming a firearm or similar weapon.

Similar:
muzzle, point, gun muzzle, neck, lump, gunport, butt, gunhand, gunstock, touch hole, more...

Opposite:
gun-free, unarmed, peaceful, nonviolent

Phrases:
at gunpoint, more...



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Similar:
muzzle, point, gun muzzle, neck, lump, gunport, butt, gunhand, gunstock, touch hole, more...

Opposite:
gun-free, unarmed, peaceful, nonviolent

Phrases:
at gunpoint, more...



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