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Noun
pink elephant (plural pink elephants)
- (informal) A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol.
I remember lying by the side of the road watching the pink elephants dancing by.
1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12: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.
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