Zebra

Quick meaning: Zebra is a noun meaning (sports, slang) A referee.

Meaning

(sports, slang) A referee.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.
2. (medicine, by extension) Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder
3. (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.
4. (informal) A zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).
5. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
6. A zebra crossing.
7. Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.

Example Sentences

A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.

EDS charities around the world use a zebra logo to promote the idea that sometimes it really is that ‘rare’ condition.

On his way home he'd picked up two economy-sized bags of tortilla chips, and had dropped both when a twat in a Lexus honked him on a zebra . . .

“People change countries for all kinds of reasons,” Ross tells me. “But at least one of them was that she had this light-skinned, mixed-race child who had already been called a zebra at school.”

Word Forms

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