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pink elephants

pink elephants

noun
any of various visual hallucinations sometimes experienced as a withdrawal symptom after sustained alcoholic drinking.

Origin:
1905–10
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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pink elephants
 
pl n
a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness

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pink elephants definition


and pink spiders
  1. n.
    the delirium tremens. : He was shaking something awful from the pink spiders.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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