pink elephant en · NOUN
Meanings
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(informal) A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol.
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.
1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12:I remember lying by the side of the road watching the pink elephants dancing by.
Forms
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| pink elephants | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
pl białe myszki (Translations) · de weiße Maus (Translations)