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a. (context Cockney rhyming slang English) drunk (gloss: intoxicated with alcohol)
Usage examples of "elephant's".
Two weeks after the elephant's disappearance I raised the reward to seventy-five thousand dollars by the inspector's advice.
About three weeks after the elephant's disappearance I was about to say, one morning, that I should have to strike my colors and retire, when the great detective arrested the thought by proposing one more superb and masterly move.
Rolf dared to lay his hand flat on the featureless surface of the Elephant's metal flank.
In that moment a sharp, straining click sounded somewhere in Elephant's inside, and there was light, striking out of the door like the golden beams of the sun.
He did not need the torch, with the flood of true illumination washing out of Elephant's opened side.
Rolf pressed at the red control again, and a spurt of what looked like liquid fire came lashing feebly from one of the projections on Elephant's snout.
There was a fresh gouge-scar where Elephant's shoulder had touched the surface of the enormous door.
If Elephant's power was all that had been hinted, it was just possible that with it under his control he might even be able to face east one day without cringing in utter subservience-but no, he would not let even his inner thoughts follow that line.
There was rockdust and sand on them tonight, not river-mud - he knew by this that most of them had been working on the north side of the pass, lifting off the mountain from Elephant's resting place.
The light that rent it was as sudden as that which had blazed out of Elephant's side, and a thousand times, a million times, as bright.
Soon he could lay first his hand and then his forehead against the cool solidity of Elephant's flank.
Now it seemed that some of Elephant's age-old power came flowing into him, the strength of some fantastic metal army descending to his muscles and his hands.
His hands, moving caressingly rather than groping over Elephant's cool side, quickly found the recessed steps and grips.
Hearing Elephant's approach if still unable to see it, the company mounted.
To Thomas, accustomed to thinking in tactical terms, it was obvious that Elephant's first charge had outflanked the enemy in the field, cutting them off from the Castle and completing their demoralization, begun by the night itself.