"pink elephant" meaning in English

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          "text": "I remember lying by the side of the road watching the pink elephants dancing by.",
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          "ref": "1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12:",
          "text": "There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.",
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        "A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol."
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          "hallucination",
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        "(informal) A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol."
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          "code": "de",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "weiße Maus"
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            "nonvirile"
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          "word": "białe myszki"
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  "word": "pink elephant"
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        "(informal) A stereotypical hallucination, particularly one brought on by drinking alcohol."
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