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Leapfrog   /lˈipfrˌɔg/   Listen
Leapfrog

noun
1.
Advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors.
2.
A game in which one child bends down and another leaps over.
verb
1.
Jump across.
2.
Progress by large jumps instead of small increments.





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"Leapfrog" Quotes from Famous Books



... fourth day of Fritz's contemptuous use of the road mentioned, the Captain and I were at our posts as usual. Fritz was strafing us pretty rough, just like he's doing now. The shells were playing leapfrog all through that orchard. ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey
... garden, but from the view of himself: it is a frank statement that as he needs a certain portion of time to himself, so he needs a certain portion of ground to himself, and must not be stared at when he digs there in his shirt- sleeves, or plays at leapfrog with his boys from school, or talks over old times with his wife, walking up and down in the evening sunshine. Besides, the brick wall has good practical service in it, and shelters you from the east wind, and ripens your peaches and nectarines, ...
— The Two Paths • John Ruskin
... all circumstances find time to do a friendly thing. Always from the first taken a friendly interest in our little experiment. He is, indeed, indirectly personally responsible for its undertaking. If I hadn't come across him playing leapfrog before dinner with AKERS—DOUGLAS and JACKSON, as mentioned some weeks ago, SARK and I would never have tried this ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 29, 1890 • Various


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