zebra crossing

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

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)

1. (Australia, UK, New Zealand, Singapore) A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
   • 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 50:

     '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, page 16:

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

   • 2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things‎, Random House, →ISBN, →OL, 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.

• crosswalk
• pedestrian crossing
• ped xing

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

• zebra crossing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia