(finance) speculative hedging for an excessive amount

(finance) Hedging to an insufficient extent, such that some future risk remains.

Alternative form of billhook

Alternative form of billhook

present participle of hedge one's bets

(simile, UK, informal, humorous) To look extremely disheveled.

present participle of look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

simple past tense and past participle of look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (spiny hedgehogs, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.)