OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1529

zebra

/ˈzɛbɹə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cebra • zebra (tsebra, disused)
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 zeb…
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