or else

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Conjunction

or else

  1. Otherwise or as an alternative.
    Go now, or else you'll have to stay all night.

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Phrase

or else

  1. (idiomatic) Implies an unspecified threat if a preceding command is not fulfilled.
    Clean up your room, or else!
    "You’d better not" "Or else?"
    • 2022 June 1, Ryan Mac, “Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 September 2025:
      Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]
    • 2024 March 9, Jacob Bernstein, “A Former Trump Aide Becomes a Liberal Favorite”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2024:
      Joy Behar, who has called the MAGA movement a cult, poked her head into the room and demonstrated how invested she was in Ms. Farah Griffin’s success by offering some advice aimed squarely at me: “Be nice — or else.”

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