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/lˈipfrˌɔg/ Listen

Leapfrog

verb

Jump across.

Progress by large jumps instead of small increments.

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Etymology of 'Leapfrog'

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"Leapfrog" Quotes from Famous Books

... which has been made to serve it. For, after all, man is a spiritual being, and not a mere living money-bag jumping from profit to profit, and breaking the backbone of human races in its financial leapfrog. ...

— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore

... passed out of the Park, and turning into one of the streets on the upper West Side stopped presently before a small dingy apartment house, where a dozen ragged children were playing leapfrog ...

— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow

... he was disappointed, but his disappointment didn't last long, for Ping Pong just clapped his hands, and all three crouched down as boys do when they are playing leapfrog, or like the acrobats in the circus. Sing Song climbed on the back of Ping Pong, and Ah See on top of Sing Song. But at that Ah See's head reached only half way up the ...

— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

Words linked to "Leapfrog" : shape up, progress, onward motion, spring, procession, advance, bound, advancement, child's game, come along, progression, leap, jump, get along, forward motion, come on, get on