pink elephants

plural noun

: hallucinations arising especially from heavy drinking or use of narcotics

began to see pink elephants

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Their swaddles are in prints of pink elephants or flowers. —New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022

Even when black holes crashed together and merged, the singularities—or pink elephants—would remain hidden by their event horizons, preventing their existence from throwing the outer cosmos into chaos. —Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020

This six-inch pink elephant from beloved plush toy maker Mary Meyer has a Wubbanub medical grade non-latex pacifier attached. —Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2020

Curtin, a wildlife artist, paints pink elephants, blue rhinoceroses, standing cows and pigs adorned with jewelry and lipstick. —Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 27 June 2019

Since the legendary car wash opened in 1956, the rotating pink elephant has witnessed the Space Needle go up and Amazon’s headquarters emerge from former parking lots just a few blocks away. —Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario, The Seattle Times, 7 Feb. 2019

The 1950s design by Remco features nine playful, painted wood obstacles—from the clown, lighthouse, and dachshund shown here to a pink elephant and storybook castle. —Jessica Leigh Hester, Country Living, 27 June 2014

The Trailer for Tim Burton's Live-Action Dumbo Is Only a Little Scary Disney There's just one pink elephant. —Joshua Rivera, GQ, 13 June 2018

For starts, Beard -- a New Orleans artist and author best known for his frenetic deceptions of wildlife -- lives in a pink elephant surrounded by a menagerie. —Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 11 Oct. 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above