Leapfrog

Quick meaning: Leapfrog is a noun meaning (transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.

Meaning

(transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To overtake.
2. (intransitive) To progress.
3. (transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
4. (transitive, chiefly British, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
5. (games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
6. (chiefly British, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.

Example Sentences

This new product will leapfrog the competition.

La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.

Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.

If the following bus has no passengers who wish to get off, it may leapfrog the leader but will face the same delay at the next stop.

Word Forms

• leapfrogs
• leap frog
• leap-frog
• leapfrogging
• leapfrogged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overtake, skip, jump, leap, ride, bypass.

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