or else

Definitions

1. 1

   Otherwise or as an alternative.

   • Go now, or else you'll have to stay all night.
   • If you wil willingly remaine with me, You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be: Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.
   • He shall do this, or else I do recant / The pardon that I late pronounced here.
2. 2

   Implies an unspecified threat if a preceding command is not fulfilled.

   • Clean up your room, or else!
   • "You’d better not" "Or else?"
   • Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]

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