elephants
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of elephants
C20: shortened from elephant's trunk, rhyming slang for drunk
Example Sentences
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Mr. Herzog, who with his intensely dramatic yet dryly matter-of-fact vocal stylings lends the feature his typically scintillating narration, follows him on a journey to Namibia and Angola in search of the ghost elephants.
He thought so much of that little old farm of ours, he wouldn’t have stopped working to watch a herd of elephants march down the road.
From Literature
"We are here to visit Bali Zoo... so we were trying to visit the elephants but due to this condition we couldn’t do this," 28-year-old Mexican national Briana Palacios told AFP.
From Barron's
At the same time, oxygen isotope analysis of fossil tooth enamel revealed that the pygmy elephants depended heavily on river water that became harder to find s conditions grew drier.
From Science Daily
An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe.
From BBC
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