zebra crossing
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Etymology
[edit]From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
- 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 50:
- 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
- 2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things[1], Random House, →ISBN, →OL, Ch. 1:
- They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals. They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free funerals.
- 2010 December 22, “Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing given listed status”, in BBC News[2]:
- The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London — made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover — has been given Grade II listed status.
Hypernyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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[edit]Further reading
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