A zebra crossing is the striped place where walkers cross a road. Use the zebra crossing.
Traffic must stop once somebody has stepped onto it, which is what makes it different from other markings. The name was suggested by a British politician in 1948 and stuck immediately.
1nounzebra crossingThe striped place where walkers cross a road.
“The zebra crossing outside the school was repainted every summer.”
zebra crossing is a crossing.
Named from the black and white stripes, which resemble a zebra.
zebra + crossing From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the City