rogue elephant

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rogue′ el′ephant


n.
a vicious elephant that roams alone.
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Noun1.rogue elephant - a wild and vicious elephant separated from the herd
elephant - five-toed pachyderm
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"As a family, we are saddened by the premature death of our brother after a fierce attack by the rogue elephant in his Sesunin home on Wednesday, August 7", his cousin Joel Kilanga told the Star on Tuesday.
It is thought that the rogue elephant may have broken down a fence to get out of the nearby Kruger National Park and it is believed to have wandered off to the area where the lions were living.
A BRITISH soldier on antipoaching operations in Africa has been killed by a rogue elephant.
Y diffiniad swyddogol o eliffant gwyllt - rogue elephant ydi'r term Saesneg - ydi un sy'n gwahanu ei hun oddi wrth weddill y llwyth ac yn gweithredu ar ei ben ei hun.
Patna: A rogue elephant, which trampled as many as 15 people to death since March, was shot dead on Friday night barely hours before the world celebrated 'World Elephant Day'.
Wildlife rangers and hunters were on the prowl in eastern India to track and kill a rogue elephant that has crushed 15 people to death in a months-long rampage.
At a SHOT Show, a customer showed us a .416-caliber 400-grain AGSS that had destroyed both shoulders of a big rogue elephant with practically no deflection.
This revives the notion of the CIA as a "rogue elephant" that was propounded by the Frank Church Committee in the 1970s but has been rebutted by many historians.
The title Rogue Elephant is almost a certain reference to the Indian economy's image of a lumbering elephant, an elephant that's gone rogue in the sense of no longer shining and no longer being the flavour of the month in Davos, or wherever.
Levenson, who often composes his poems under headphones listening to music, said, "There are instrumental music interpretations involved with most of these." He recalls listening to Dave Schmeidler, "Skyrats Scraps," HDS, 2002; Ensemble Ambrosius, "The Zappa Album," Musical Heritage Society, 2001; Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, "Appalachia Waltz," Sony Classical, 1996; Pat O'Connell, "Tikal," Rogue Elephant Music, 2000; Prasanna, "Peaceful," Susila Music, 2001; and John Zorn (performed by Rashanim), "Masada Rock," Tzadik, 2005.
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