Wiktionary
n. (pink elephant English)
WordNet
n. any visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking
Wikipedia
Pink Elephants is Mick Harvey's second collection of Serge Gainsbourg covers.
Pink Elephants is the name of a black-and-white cartoon made by the Terrytoons studio. Directed by George Gordon, produced by Paul Terry and with original music by Philip A. Scheib, it was released in the USA on 9 July 1937. It is among the few unsyndicated Terrytoons that has been digitized by collectors and archivists.
Usage examples of "pink elephants".
The hallucinations, as far as we are concerned, are the important factor, the tired old joke about seeing pink elephants.
The interesting part about this is that both groups of pink elephants are subjective, the difference being that you know it and the alcoholic does not.
Drunks see pink elephants and brontosaurs and bugs crawling all over everything.
Some had taken to boats, but this method of escape had ceased when most of the harbour area turned into a swamp in which, for no obvious reason, a couple of small pink elephants were building a nest.