bestride
- v get up on the back of
- The most imposing personage ever to bestride Wall Street--his nickname was Jupiter--Morgan had a thunderclap voice, a ferocious glare and a grotesquely disfigured red nose that, he .
- At the same time, the star tv and BSkyB deals enable Murdoch to bestride the television world.
- For Man of the Year: Joseph Stalin, for "he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus.