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leapfrog
[leep-frog, -frawg]
noun
a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
an advance from one place, position, or situation to another without progressing through all or any of the places or stages in between.
a leapfrog from bank teller to vice president in one short year.
verb (used with object)
to jump over (a person or thing) in or as if in leapfrog.
He leapfrogged the fence to reach the crying child.
to move or cause to move as if in leapfrog.
Manufacturers are leapfrogging prices because the cost of raw materials has doubled.
verb (used without object)
to move or advance in or as if in leapfrog.
Our tour leapfrogged through six cities in four days.
leapfrog
/ ˈːˌڰɒɡ /
noun
a children's game in which each player in turn leaps over the others' bent backs, leaning on them with the hands and spreading the legs wide
verb
(intr) to play leapfrog
(tr) to leap in this way over (something)
to advance or cause to advance by jumps or stages
Other Word Forms
- leapfrogger noun
Example Sentences
The band were considered an outlier for the final, but leapfrogged over higher profile songs from Ireland and Czechia - precisely because they stood out.
Both Plaid and Reform are hoping they can leapfrog Labour and become the largest group in the Senedd, as are the Welsh Conservatives, who are polling behind the other three.
They are ecstatic to have leapfrogged the Conservatives into third in the Projected National Share.
Indeed, the main factor in California’s leapfrogging over Japan was the decline in the yen’s value against the dollar, an artifact of the Bank of Japan’s decision to maintain low, even negative interest rates.
California has leapfrogged from 19th to 4th in the nation for women’s state legislative representation.
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