leapfrog
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
leapfrog
- (games) A game#Noun|game, often played by children, in which a player leap#Verb|leaps like a frog over the back#Noun|back of another person who has stoop#Verb|stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row#Noun|row and bending over. The last person in the line then vault#Verb|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.
- (chiefly, Britain, law, usually, attributive) The process#Noun|process by which a case#Noun|case is appeal#Verb|appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypass#Verb|bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- French: saute-mouton
- German: Bockspringen
- Italian: cavallina
- Portuguese: carniça, eixo-badeixo
- Russian: чехарда́
- Spanish: correcalles, pídola (Castillian)
leapfrog (leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging; past and past participle leapfrogged)
- (transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
- (transitive) To overtake.
- This new product will leapfrog the competition.
- (intransitive) To progress#Verb|progress.
- (transitive, chiefly, Britain, law) Of a case#Noun|case: to appeal#Verb|appeal or allow to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypass#Verb|bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- (transitive, military) To advance#Verb|advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another move#Verb|moves further forward.
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