Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pink elephant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables: pink ele-phant
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Informal

Example Sentences

"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."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

pink elephants (plural)

Questions

What does pink elephant mean?: A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol.

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