Usually means: Jumping over another in sequence.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. leapfrog: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leapfrog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leapfrog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leapfrog: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leapfrog: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leapfrog, leapfrog: Wordnik
  7. leapfrog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. leapfrog: Wiktionary
  9. leapfrog: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leapfrog: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leapfrog: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Leapfrog, leapfrog: Dictionary.com
  13. leapfrog: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Leapfrog (comics), Leapfrog (disambiguation), Leapfrog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Leapfrog: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. leapfrog: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. leapfrog: Rhymezone
  18. Leapfrog: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. leapfrog: Free Dictionary
  20. leapfrog: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. leapfrog: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

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  1. leapfrog: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leapfrog: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See leapfrogged as well.)

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noun:  (games) 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 he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.
noun:  (chiefly British, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
verb:  (transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
verb:  (transitive) To overtake.
verb:  (intransitive) To progress.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly British, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
verb:  (transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
noun:  (slang, humorous) Laphroaig whisky.

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