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zebra crossing

UK/ˈzɛbɹə ˌkɹɔsɪŋ/

zebra crossing noun: a pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.

zebra crossing: a pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street
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Noun

zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
    • '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.1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 50
    • Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing. Dismount and wheel your cycle across.2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 16

zebra crossing meaning in Kannada, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

zebra crossing in Kannada

ನಡಿಗೆಯ ದಾಟುದಾರಿ, ದಾಟುದಾರಿ

zebra crossing in Arabic

pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
مَمَرُّ الرَّاجِلِين mamarru r-rājilīn

zebra crossing in Malay

pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
lintasan zebra

zebra crossing in Indonesian

pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
zebra cross
More languagesFewer languages
zebra crossing in Thai
ทางม้าลาย taang máa laai

Examples of zebra crossing in a sentence

  • They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals.2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Random House, →ISBN, →OL, Ch. 1:
  • The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London — made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover — has been given Grade II listed status.2010 December 22, “Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing given listed status”, in BBC News:

Forms of zebra crossing

pluralzebra crossings

Origin of zebra crossing

zebra + crossing From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.

Questions about zebra crossing

What does zebra crossing mean?
Zebra crossing means a pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
What is zebra crossing in Kannada?
Zebra crossing in Kannada is ನಡಿಗೆಯ ದಾಟುದಾರಿ, ದಾಟುದಾರಿ. See Zebra crossing meaning in Kannada.
How do you use zebra crossing in a sentence?
They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals.
What part of speech is zebra crossing?
Zebra crossing is a noun.
How do you pronounce zebra crossing?
Zebra crossing is pronounced /ˈzɛbɹə ˌkɹɔsɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of zebra crossing?
The plural of zebra crossing is zebra crossings.

Words near zebra crossing in the dictionary

  1. zebra caterpillar
  2. zebra caterpillars
  3. zebra chip
  4. zebra cichlid
  5. zebra cichlids
  6. zebra crossing
  7. zebra crossings
  8. zebra danio
  9. zebra danios
  10. zebra dove
  11. zebra doves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zebra crossing (page history and authors); zebra crossing (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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