A pink slip must be given to an employee who is terminated while under contract and is part of a collective bargain agreement or a union. Although not legally required in most circumstances, many employers decide to issue a pink slip to formalize the employeeâs termination.
A pedestrian crossing (British English) or crosswalk (American English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road. Crosswalks are designed to keep pedestrians together where they can be seen by motorists, and where they can cross most safely across the flow of vehicular traffic.
I grabbed this one because I figured it would be a quick and easy answer. I figured wrong. My usual word and phrase origin sources all came up dry on jaywalking - except for Old Faithful, the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED gives this definition for jaywalking: A pedestrian who crosses the street without regard to traffic regulations.. It gives this cite from the June, 1927 edition of Harper's: the Bostonian ... has reduced 'a pedestrian who crosses streets in disregard of traffic signals' to the compact 'jaywalking.'.