elephants
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of elephants
C20: shortened from elephant's trunk, rhyming slang for drunk
Example Sentences
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City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, a longtime advocate for the elephants, filed a motion seeking to pause their relocation until the City Council could review the possibility of sending them to a sanctuary.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
The Brazilian Uberabatitan and the Argentine Neuquensaurus were roughly the size of modern elephants.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
"In Wayanad, going into the plantation at night is risky. We have snakes, wild boars, sometimes even leopards and elephants," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The elephants look far off into the distance so they won’t see the humans who want to see them.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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