Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pedestrian crosswalk.
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- noun UK, New Zealand A
pedestrian crossing featuring broad whitestripes painted parallel to the street.
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- noun street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[So called because it is marked with white stripes.]
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From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.
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reesetee commented on the word zebra crossing
A type of pedestrian street crossing characterized by longitudinal stripes on the road running parallel to the flow of traffic, alternately white and dark or white and unpainted.
March 6, 2007