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Definition of leapfrog
: a game in which one player bends down and is vaulted over by another player
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Recent Examples of leapfrog from the Web
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Staff in the London embassy could phone the White House or the Deputy Secretary of State—quite the leapfrog over typical channels for cables.
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First Known Use of leapfrog
1599
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Definition of leapfrog
leapfrogged
;leapfrogging
intransitive verb
: to leap or progress in or as if in leapfrog
transitive verb
1 : to go ahead of (each other) in turn; specifically : to advance (two military units) by keeping one unit in action while moving the other unit past it to a position farther in front
2 : to evade by or as if by a bypass
Examples of leapfrog in a Sentence
Skipping his last two years of high school, he leapfrogged his classmates and went to college.
This year's technologies are leapfrogging last year's designs.
Recent Examples of leapfrog from the Web
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Mitchell has the wingspan to make that work and the offensive game to potentially leapfrog Alec Burks in Utah’s rotation.
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Duke could leapfrog to second place Thursday if both Jayson Tatum and Luke Kennard go top 14, but the Jayhawks remain in line with North Carolina and also comfortably ahead of Arizona and Texas.
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With women now holding 38.6% of the National Assembly seats, France has leapfrogged to 17th place on the world ranking of female parliamentary representation, skipping over countries like Britain and Germany.
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That’s simply too many to leapfrog with only eight races left.
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China's astronomers rallied around the idea of leapfrogging to a 12-meter telescope that, if completed quickly before other giants like the TMT, would for some years be the largest telescope on Earth.
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The Nationals, in first place in the NL East, head to Los Angeles on Tuesday to play the Dodgers, who have leapfrogged the Rockies for top billing in the NL West.
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Waymo, which is among a handful of tech companies racing to develop autonomous vehicle hardware and software, could leapfrog past Uber and other tech rivals if its technology proves to be more advanced.
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Ford was also hailed in a recent study by Navigant Research as having the industry's most advanced autonomous vehicle development program, leapfrogging Waymo, the Google spin-off that many had previously considered the leader in that emerging field.
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First Known Use of leapfrog
1872
LEAPFROG Defined for English Language Learners
leapfrog
playDefinition of leapfrog for English Language Learners
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: a children's game in which one player bends down so that another player can leap over the back of the first player
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Definition of leapfrog for English Language Learners
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: to move ahead of or beyond (someone or something) in a very quick and sudden way
LEAPFROG Defined for Kids
leapfrog
playDefinition of leapfrog for Students
: a game in which one player bends down and another player leaps over the first player
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