pink elephants

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plural noun
  1. any of various visual hallucinations sometimes experienced as a withdrawal symptom after sustained alcoholic drinking.

Origin of pink elephants

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use pink elephants in a sentence

  • In Venusport, on payday-night, it is difficult to tell for certain where the town leaves off and the pink elephants begin.

    Shock Treatment | Stanley Mullen
  • He had better cut out those visits to the river resorts, or next he would be seeing pink elephants climbing trees.

  • "I'd believe ye sooner if ye said ye saw pink elephants," said Jarrow.

    Isle o' Dreams | Frederick F. Moore
  • "If you're a mahout for pink elephants, I don't want to see you," I said.

    The Chameleon Man | William P. McGivern
  • You saw a cricket that big and this Gurlone feller took a couple of pink elephants out of his pocket to pay the check.

British Dictionary definitions for pink elephants

pink elephants

pl n
  1. a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness

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