zebra meat, n.

zebra-meat
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Revised 2018

# zebra meatnoun

## Factsheet

### Where does the noun zebra meat come from?

Earliest known use

1850s

The earliest known use of the noun zebra meat is in the 1850s.

OED's earliest evidence for zebra meat is from 1857, in Proceedings Royal Geogr. Society.

### Nearby entries

1. Zebedist, n. 1574
2. zebra, n. 1597–
3. zebra caterpillar, n. 1841–
4. zebra crossing, n. 1934–
5. zebra danio, n. 1917–
6. zebraed, adj. 1806–
7. zebra finch, n. 1868–
8. zebrafish, n. 1771–
9. zebraic, adj. 1858–
10. zebra marking, n. 1854–
11. zebra meat, n.1857–
12. zebra moray, n. 1933–
13. zebra mule, n. 1841–
14. zebra mussel, n. 1866–
15. zebrano, n. 1908–
16. zebra opossum, n. 1808–
17. zebra parakeet, n. 1856–
18. zebra plant, n. 1826–
19. zebra poison, n. 1871–74
20. zebra print, n. & adj. 1932–
21. zebra rhomb, n. 1770–1844

## Meaning & use

1. 1857–
   See zebra n. Compounds.
   1. 1857

      > All the food he had for nearly two years was milk, zebra meat, or any other wild meat that he could get by his gun.

      Proceedings Royal Geogr. Society vol. 2 78
   2. 1907

      > He was afraid that they would seize all the zebra-meat that the lions had not already eaten.

      J. H. Patterson, Man-eaters of Tsavo xxiii. 262
   3. 1999

      > Today, zebra meat finds its way to open markets scattered across eastern and southern Africa.

      J. Hopkins, Strange Foods 13

Originally published as part of the entry for zebra, n.

zebra, n. was revised in June 2018.