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or else

conjunction

  1. otherwise, or possibly
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Wiktionary

conj

  1. Otherwise or as an alternative.

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

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

phrase

  1. Implies an unspecified threat if a preceding command is not fulfilled.

    Clean up your room, or else!

    "You’d better not" "Or else?"