adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 (of a shot) fired with the gun touching or very close to the person or thing it is aimed at:
The officer was shot dead at point-blank range.
2 (of sth that is said) very definite and direct and not very polite:
a point-blank refusal
point-blank adverb:
She fired point-blank at his chest. * He refused point-blank to be photographed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of point-blank come from?
This entry for point-blank is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does point-blank appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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