Meaning of pink elephant | Babel Free

Definitions

A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol.

informal

Equivalents

Examples

“I remember lying by the side of the road watching the pink elephants dancing by.”

“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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