Irrelephant
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants. humorous
"Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. […] But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about."
Example
More examples"Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. […] But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about."
Etymology
Blend of irrelevant + elephant.
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