Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

elephant's

/ˈɛləfənts/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables
ele-phan-t's
IPA
/ˈɛləfənts/
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

drunk (intoxicated with alcohol)

Slang

Etymology

Cockney rhyming slang, from elephant's trunk where trunk rhymes with drunk.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more elephant's (comparative) most elephant's (superlative)

Synonyms

drunk

Questions

How do you pronounce elephant's?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛləfənts/.
What does elephant's mean?
drunk (intoxicated with alcohol)
Where does elephant's come from?
Cockney rhyming slang, from elephant's trunk where trunk rhymes with drunk.

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