zebra

noun9

1. •
   Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.

   • A group of zebras can be called a dazzle. — 2019
2. •
   A zebra crossing.

   • 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 . . . — 2010
3. •
   (slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.
4. •
   Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder

   • EDS charities around the world use a zebra logo to promote the idea that sometimes it really is that ‘rare’ condition. — 2020
5. •
   (slang) A referee.
6. •
   (informal) A zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).
7. •
   (slang, offensive) A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.

   • “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.” — 2021
8. •
   Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
9. •
   A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and two at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

noun1

1. •
   radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Z.