at gunpoint

English

Prepositional phrase

at gunpoint

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.

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 (zài qiāng kǒu)
Dutch: onder bedreiging van een vuurwapen, onder schot
Esperanto: al pinto de pistolo, per armila forto
French: à bout portant (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 пистолета (pod dulom pistoleta)
Spanish: a punta de pistola
Swedish: under vapenhot, under pistolhot
Thai: ที่จ่อ (thī̀ c̀x)

See also

at knifepoint

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