Definition of "at gunpoint" []

• Being threatened with shooting; under coercion (phrase)

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• "Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of legendary newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped at gunpoint in 1974 by three people identifying themselves as soldiers in the “Symbionese Liberation Army.”"
• "For almost three more years, he persisted with his oxymoronic mission: “conciliating” Aborigines at gunpoint and shipping them back under guard to join the Establishment on Flinders Island."
• "As if the local militias and authorities wanted to prove the local aid workers right, three hours after I leave El Geneina, a town with no antigovernment rebels, a UN vehicle with two volunteers is robbed at gunpoint by men in military camouflage just outside the town."