Definition of leapfrog
: a game in which one player bends down and is vaulted over by another player
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This feels like a higher calling, a profound leapfrog.
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Find your leapfrog First of all, Apple didn’t create the first touchscreen, the first smartphone, the first MP3 player or the first personal computer.
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Add this to the list of bad ideas: Playing leapfrog with a unicorn.
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The support van leapfrogs the runners, providing rest and camaraderie for team members.
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For him, the leapfrog innovation of Silicon Valley is far preferable.
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The Supreme Court’s refusal to let the administration leapfrog appeals courts means that DACA stays for at least a few months and perhaps until well after midterm elections.
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Others got in formation for leapfrog and duck-duck-goose.
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ICOs resemble both a new form of crowdfunding, and a technological leapfrog over the regulations that hem in more orthodox funding strategies.
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First Known Use of leapfrog
1599
Definition of leapfrog
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: 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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The trend of rising US output prompted Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, to predict this spring that the US would leapfrog Russia and become the world's largest producer by next year – if not sooner.
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Wall Street Journal Game of Leapfrog Facebook CEO Mark Zuckergerg is on the brink of leapfrogging Warren Buffett to become the world’s third-richest person.
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In early primary returns, Rouda was narrowly ahead of Keirstead, but Keirstead leapfrogged him and led for most of the past two weeks.
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Meanwhile, the Swedes know that a two goal victory will see them leapfrog Mexico, but a Swedish win of any description will see both sides progress if Germany fail to defeat South Korea in their final match.
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The new lithium-silicon batteries, nearing production-ready status thanks to startups including Sila Technologies and Angstron Materials, will leapfrog marginal improvements in existing lithium-ion batteries.
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The Suns can leapfrog the Clippers and perhaps challenge the Nuggets and Timberwolves.
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What’s interesting is these live-action films do kind of leapfrog over the Broadway shows.
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But machines can kind of leapfrog over the limitations of natural selection.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'leapfrog.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of leapfrog
1872
LEAPFROG Defined for English Language Learners
Definition 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
leapfrog
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
Definition of leapfrog for Students
: a game in which one player bends down and another player leaps over the first player
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