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- noun UK A tall black and white
pole topped byflashing orangeglobe , placed on either side of theroad atzebra crossings ; mostly now replaced by moresophisticated arrangements
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After Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport who introduced them in 1934.
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