intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To stand or sit with a leg on each side of; bestride.

intransitive verb. To be on both sides of; extend over or across.

intransitive verb. To appear to favor both sides of (an issue).

intransitive verb. To fire shots behind and in front of (a target) in order to determine the range.

intransitive verb. To walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart, especially to sit astride.

intransitive verb. To spread out in a disorderly way; sprawl.

intransitive verb. To appear to favor both sides of an issue.

intransitive verb. To place a bet in poker before the cards are dealt that is twice the amount of the big blind when one is immediately to the left of the big blind.

noun. The act or posture of sitting astride.

noun. An equivocal or a noncommittal position.

noun. The simultaneous purchase or sale of a call option and a put option with the same strike price and expiration date as a means of speculating on the degree of price change in the underlying asset.

noun. The bet made when straddling in poker.

idiom. (straddle the fence) To be undecided or uncommitted.

Astride; with straddled legs: as, to ride straddle.

noun. The act of standing or sitting with the legs far apart.

noun. The distance between the feet or legs of one who straddles.

noun. In speculative dealings on 'change, a “privilege” or speculative contract covering both a “put” and a “call”—that is, giving the holder the right at his option of calling, within a specified number of days, for a certain stock or commodity at a price named in the contract, or

noun. of delivering to the person to whom the consideration had been paid a certain stock or commodity upon terms similarly stated. See call, n., 15, privilege, n., 5, and put, n., 5. Also called spread eagle.

noun. In the game of poker, a doubling of the blind by one of the players.

noun. An attempt to take an equivocal or non-committal position: as, a straddle in a party platform.

noun. In mining, one of the vertical timbers by which the different sets are supported at a fixed distance from each other in the shaft; a vertical post used in various ways in timbering a mine, as in supporting the framework of a shaft at a hanging-on place.

To stand or walk with the legs wide apart; sit or stand astride.

To include or favor two apparently opposite or different things; occupy or take up an equivocal position in regard to something: as, to straddle on the tariff question.

To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; stand or sit astride of: as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

To occupy or take up an equivocal position in regard to; appear to favor both sides of: as, to straddle a political question.

To double (the blind) in poker.

noun. A sort of tumble-bug; a scarabæid beetle with long legs, of the genus Canthon, as C. lævis. See cut under tumble-bug.

transitive verb. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of.

noun. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.

noun. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.

noun. A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a “put” and a “call,” i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.

intransitive verb. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

intransitive verb. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

verb. To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something.

verb. To form a disorderly sprawl.

verb. To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range.

verb. To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).

noun. a posture in which one straddles something

noun. an investment strategy involving trade in derivatives

noun. A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.

noun. the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options

noun. the act of sitting or standing astride

verb. be noncommittal

noun. a noncommittal or equivocal position

verb. range or extend over; occupy a certain area

verb. sit or stand astride of

noun. a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars

"Hoodathunk (sponsored by the FSM, Noodles for Freedom!) says: backup, are you just a teeny bit cranky because that fence you constantly straddle is chafing?"

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