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zebra crossing
[zee-bruh kraw-sing, kros-ing, zeb-ruh]
noun
a crosswalk marked with white stripes.
zebra crossing
noun
a pedestrian crossing marked on a road by broad alternate black and white stripes. Once on the crossing the pedestrian has right of way
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of zebra crossing1
Example Sentences
"The traffic doesn't stop for me so what makes them think it will stop for parents, whether there is a zebra crossing or not. In the mornings, it's a fighting battle every day," she said.
The mural depicts the band's Abbey Road album cover, and is painted on the side of a Poundland store at Hereward Cross in the city centre, adjacent to a zebra crossing.
"Even if they just turned the white leaves into zebra crossings, everybody knows what a zebra crossing is."
Father Ben, 45, said a zebra crossing outside St Mark's had seen "two shootings and seven stabbings" in the months leading up to Dylan's death.
Upgrade work has started at a zebra crossing in West Yorkshire which has become notorious for accidents.
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