What does or else mean?

or else

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.35 in modern English

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"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."
"He shall do this, or else I do recant / The pardon that I late pronounced here."
"Clean up your room, or else!"
""You’d better not" "Or else?""
"Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]"

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