at gunpoint

English

A Canadian soldier forcing another Canadian soldier to eat a potato at gunpoint, during World War I

Prepositional phrase

at gunpoint

1. Under coercion by someone with a firearm.

   At gunpoint I was told to hand over my money.

   I held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

2. (by extension) Under coercion in general.

Translations

under coercion by someone with a firearm

• Arabic: تَحْتَ التَّهْدِيد بِالسِّلاح (taḥta t-tahdīd bi-s-silāḥ)
• Catalan: a punta de pistola
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在槍口 / 在枪口 (zài qiāng kǒu)

• Dutch: onder bedreiging van een vuurwapen, onder schot
• Esperanto: al pinto de pistolo, per armila forto
• Finnish: aseella uhaten
• French: en joue (fr)
• German: mit vorgehaltener Schusswaffe, unter vorgehaltener Schusswaffe, mit Schusswaffengewalt, unter Schusswaffengewalt, von einer Pistole bedroht
• Hebrew: באיומי אקדח
• Italian: a mano armata
• Japanese: 銃を突きつけて (jū o tsukitsukete)
• Polish: pod lufą karabinu
• Russian: под дулом автомата (pod dulom avtomata), под дулом пистолета (pod dulom pistoleta)
• Spanish: a punta de pistola
• Swedish: under vapenhot, under pistolhot
• Thai: ที่จ่อ (thī̀ c̀x)

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