English

zebra crossing

Noun

zebra crossing ‎(plural zebra crossings)

1. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
   • 1979, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

     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.‎

   • 2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, ISBN 9780337044052, page 16:

     Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing. Dismount and wheel your cycle across.

   • 2008 December 16, Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things, Random House, ISBN 9780812979657, OL 24604480M, 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:

     The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London — made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover — has been given Grade II listed status.

Translations

Hypernyms

• crosswalk
• pedestrian crossing
• ped xing

See also

• Belisha beacon
• ghost island
• island
• pelican crossing
• puffin crossing
• toucan crossing