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zebra_crossing
zebra crossing
English
Noun
zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)
- (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.
- 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.
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Translations
pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
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