pink elephants

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   any visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking

   Broadervisual hallucination

Questions about pink elephants

What does pink elephants mean?

pink elephants means "any visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking".

Is pink elephants a common word?

pink elephants is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.