name
Meaning 1
Laphroaig whisky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, slang
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Standard Lemma guide
leapfrog
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/
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General-American: /ˈliːpfɹɑɡ/
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General-American: /-fɹɔɡ/
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noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: games
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noun
Meaning 3
The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, attributive, countable, uncountable, usually
Topics: law
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verb
Meaning 4
To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To overtake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- This new product will leapfrog the competition.
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verb
Meaning 6
To progress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, transitive
Topics: law
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verb
Meaning 8
To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 9
a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: child's game
noun
Meaning 10
advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends
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Broader terms: progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion
verb
Meaning 11
progress by large jumps instead of small increments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up
verb
Meaning 12
jump across
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He leapfrogged his classmates
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Broader terms: jump, leap, bound, spring
History
Etymology
From leap + frog.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: հավալա (havala) — game
- Armenian: իծաշարուկ (icašaruk) — game
- Azerbaijani: atlanbac — game
- Azerbaijani: eşşəkbeli — game
- Azerbaijani: artırma — game
- Belarusian: чахарда́ (čaxardá) — game
- Bulgarian: прескочи-кобила (preskoči-kobila) — game
- Catalan: viola — game
- Chinese Mandarin: 蛙跳 (wātiào) — game
- Chuvash: сысналла (sysnalla) — game
- Dutch: haasje-over — game
- Esperanto: ŝaf-saltado — game
- Finnish: pukkihyppely — game
- French: saute-mouton — game
- German: Bockspringen — game
- Greek: βαρελάκια (varelákia) — game
- Hungarian: bakugrás — game
- Icelandic: höfrungahlaup — game
- Ido: dorso-salto — game
- Indonesian: lompat katak — game
- Indonesian: lompat kodok — game
- Irish: caitheamh cliobóg — game
- Italian: cavallina — game
- Japanese: 馬跳び (umatobi) — game
- Norwegian: hoppe bukk — game
- Persian: جفتکچارکُش (joftak-čârkoš) — game
- Polish: zabawa w koziołki — game
- Portuguese: carniça — game
- Portuguese: eixo-badeixo — game
- Romanian: capră — game
- Russian: чехарда́ (čexardá) — game
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀скоч-кобила — game
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀скучкобила — game
- Serbo-Croatian: ја̏рац — game
- Serbo-Croatian: ùskoč-kobila — game
- Serbo-Croatian: ùskučkobila — game
- Serbo-Croatian: jȁrac — game
- Spanish: correcalles — game
- Spanish: pídola — game
- Tatar: шыгырдый (şığırdıy) — game
- Tatar: шәкшәкәр (şäkşäkär) — game
- Turkish: atlambaç — game
- Turkish: birdirbir — game
- Turkish: uzuneşek — game
- Ottoman Turkish: اوزون اشك (uzun eşek) — game
- Ukrainian: до́вга лоза́ (dóvha lozá) — game
- Ukrainian: цап (cap) — game
- Welsh: llam llyffant — game
- Esperanto: ŝaf-saltadi — to jump over some obstacle
- Finnish: loikata — to jump over some obstacle
- German: überspringen — to jump over some obstacle
- Spanish: saltar — to jump over some obstacle
- Swedish: hoppa bock — to jump over some obstacle
- Vietnamese: nhảy cừu — to jump over some obstacle
- Finnish: syrjäyttää — to overtake
- Finnish: tehdä vanhanaikaiseksi — to overtake
- German: überholen — to overtake
- Spanish: rebasar — to overtake
- Spanish: sobrepasar — to overtake
- Vietnamese: nhảy cừu — to overtake
- Finnish: loikata — to progress
- Finnish: koukata — military: to advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward
- Vietnamese: nhảy cóc — military: to advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward