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or else

1. Otherwise or as an alternative.

   Go now, or else you'll have to stay all night.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     If you wil willingly remaine with me,
     You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
     Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     He shall do this, or else I do recant / The pardon that I late pronounced here.

or else

1. (idiomatic) No matter what (implies an unspecified threat).

   Clean up your room, or else!

   • 2022 June 1, Ryan Mac, “Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]

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