EGAVE

leapfrog

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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 they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
  2. noun The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
  3. verb To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
  4. verb To overtake.
    This new product will leapfrog the competition.
  5. verb To progress.
  6. verb To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
  7. verb To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.

Similar words

overtake skip jump leap ride bypass punch hit straddle accelerate

Often followed by

the over group scheme to with development into and

Word family

leapfrogged leapfrogging leapfrogs

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