Definition
Implies an unspecified threat if a preceding command is not fulfilled.
In Context
- "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]"
- "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.”"