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

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

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (forensics) Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
adjective:  (ballistics) The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.
adjective:  (ballistics) The angle between an airplane’s gun turret and a target aircraft, where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the angle of the gun.
adjective:  2014 December 24, “Assam rebels kill scores on night of brutal attacks in Indian state”, in The Guardian:
adjective:  2022 April 3, Carlotta Gall, Andrew E. Kramer, “In a Kyiv Suburb,‘They Shot Everyone They Saw’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
adjective:  Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.
adverb:  In a direct manner, without hesitation.

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