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Astraddle (adv) means With one leg on each side of something.

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With one leg on each side of something.

"A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table." — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, A Matter of Civilization (1922)

"She climbed his body and wrapped her legs around him and they made love there, man standing, woman astraddle, in the stone odor of demolition." — Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis (2003)

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