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Leapfrog

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Noun

1. leapfrog

advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors

Example Sentences:
'the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends'

2. leapfrog

a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over

Verb

3. leapfrog

jump across

Example Sentences:
'He leapfrogged his classmates'

4. leapfrog

progress by large jumps instead of small increments

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Leapfrog

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noun
1. 
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 -frogs, -frogging or -frogged
2. 
a. (intransitive)
to play leapfrog
b. (transitive)
to leap in this way over (something)
3. 
to advance or cause to advance by jumps or stages

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Leapfrog

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noun
1. 
a game in which each player in turn jumps, with legs spread wide, over the bent back of each of the other players
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈleapˌfrogged or ˈleapˌfrogging
2. 
to jump in or as if in leapfrog; skip (over)
3. 
to move or progress in jumps or stages
verb transitive
4. 
to jump or skip over, as in leapfrog

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Leapfrog

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n.
A game in which one player kneels or bends over while the next in line leaps over him or her.
v. leap·frogged, leap·frog·ging, leap·frogs
v.tr.
1. To jump over (someone) in leapfrog.
2. To advance or progress beyond (a competitor or an obstacle, for example) in dramatic fashion: hoping to leapfrog the competition with new technology.
3. To advance (two military units) by engaging one with the enemy while moving the other to a position forward of the first unit.
v.intr.
1. To move forward in leapfrog.
2. To move or progress in a discontinuous way: The virus leapfrogged from town to town.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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