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zebra

In medicine, a common disease presenting with unusual symptoms. Also applies to a patient with symptoms common to several diseases in which the first diagnosis is of a rare or obscure disease, when the truth is a more mundane disorder.

The term was popularised by Scrubs.

Derived from the axiom "When you hear hoofbeats, think 'horses', not 'zebras'.
If a patient presents with vomiting, dairrhoea, and fever, West Nile Virus is a zebra; they're more likely to have enteropathogenic E. coli infection.
by Rhodoferax October 24, 2008
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Zebra

After having sexual intercourse and or receving a blow job with woman or man you must procede to rocket semen all over their body. Soon afterwards you will be looking at a real life zebra. Can only be performed on people with dark skin.
I stuck my peen into LaQuisha and then after words I turned her into a zebra.
by poopieweinerhole November 21, 2011
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zebra

when a woman is having a baby, she poops on the table, and the baby slides out on the poop creating a stripe going down their back
(nurse): "Oh no Doctor, we have a zebra on our hands!"
by Shimbot June 24, 2007
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zepha

A fart(n) or to fart(v) Usually, a zepha is particularly atrocious and could be considered a crime against humanity.
a zephyr is a light breeze making a zepha a fart

Example: Dude, Steve let a zepha in the elevator and gagged everyone inside. He made babies cry and a nun ask God why he had forsaken her!
by Bryan Putnam April 15, 2008
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Zeratanus

A person who is cynical, has long hair, and likes foreign women IE someone better than the rest.
Dude, You are a Zeratanus tonight!
by iwishiwashere December 14, 2008
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Zebra

Hey look at that striped horse
That's a zebra
by It's me... January 17, 2017
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confused zebra

Someone who is half black and half white and thinks they are only black, forgetting about there other half.
by water bottle. March 5, 2009
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