The Collaborative International Dictionary
Point-blank \Point`-blank"\, a.
Directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed directly toward the mark.
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Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion.
Point-blank range, the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged.
Point-blank shot, the shot of a gun pointed directly toward the object to be hit.
Usage examples of "point-blank shot".
At Bunker Hill he had shown up as a volunteer soldier and, being among the last to hold out, was felled with a point-blank shot to the back of his head.
She wheeled around, coming in close for a point-blank shot, and loosed a pair of plasma balls that vanished almost instantly into shielding singularities.
She wondered if her armor would hold against a point-blank shot, but he slid the muzzle of the weapon up, as if he knew she wore it.
It couldn't have had more than five hundred yards to travel: it was a point-blank shot, too.
It would deflect anything but an unlucky point-blank shot, and it was more than likely that he'd need that luck and that breastplate before too long.
Once they met bow-to-bow on the red-side, they'd have a point-blank shot with the two guns on the red-side below.
He swung one arm, and the ankkox's tail mace blurred through the air, knocking the turret gun of the next GAV spinning so that its point-blank shot instead detonated against the armor of the one behind.
One exploded from a point-blank shot by a T-80, the other fired back, killing the Russian tank a second later.
As it was, he doubted that anything less than a point-blank shot would have accomplished the job.
There was a tremendous boom, and the lower half of the Dutchman's face disappeared in an explosion of crimson from the point-blank shot.
As he came up to the rider he lifted his rifle for a point-blank shot when the man jerked and fell sideways off his horse.