elephants

/ ˈɛlɪfənts /

adjective

1. slang.
   drunk; intoxicated

Word History and Origins

Origin of elephants¹

C20: shortened from elephant's trunk, rhyming slang for drunk

Example Sentences

From West Virginia, USA, she played the violin, she loved elephants and chatting with her friends on Snapchat, and she was looking forward to her 13th birthday.

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Rangers accompanied them with machine guns to protect them against wild animals like elephants or rhinos, or even poachers in the national park.

From BBC

In the film, Ellyanne reports on her favourite animal - elephants - and says that drought caused by changing weather patterns now poses a greater threat to their survival than poaching.

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From elephants in tropical forests to hawksbill turtles off the Great Barrier Reef, populations are plummeting, according to a stocktake of the world's wildlife.

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The work - of two elephants poking their heads out of blocked-out windows - was painted on the side of a house in Chelsea, before it was defaced with white stripes.

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