leapfrog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈliːpfɹɑɡ/
ipa: /-fɹɔɡ/
Forms: form: leapfrogs
form: leapfrogging
form: leapfrogged
form: leapfrogged
form: leap-frog
Etymology: From leap + frog.
Senses: examples: text: Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.
ref: 2016, Nick [Nicholas] Falk, chapter 1, in How to Beat Genghis Khan in an Arm Wrestle, North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, Penguin Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
examples: text: This new product will leapfrog the competition.
text: If the following bus has no passengers who wish to get off, it may leapfrog the leader but will face the same delay at the next stop.
ref: 1949 July and August, Railway Magazine, page vii, advertisement by London Transport:
text: Blackpool thus achieved their first double over Liverpool since the 1946–47 season but more significantly they leapfrogged their opponents in the table with a game in hand.
ref: 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Blackpool 2 – 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2016:
text: Technology is developing so quickly that it occasionally leapfrogs over earlier technologies. For example, many areas of Australia did not have telephone service because they did not have a grid or wire system to deliver the signals. However, when cell phone technology became implemented Australians quickly incorporated this technology and leapfrogged over the grid system telephone requirements.
ref: 2014, Robert William Collin, “The Role of Government: Renewable Energy Sources”, in Robin Morris Collin, Robert William Collin, editors, Energy Choices: How to Power the Future, volume 2 (Renewable Energy Resources), Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 213:
text: There's rain in the air, maybe the spring is turning back into winter now. […] Where nature leapfrogs spring and goes straight to summer, letting everything skip childhood. Maybe to avoid the torments and vulnerability of youth?
ref: 2015 March, Mons Kallentoft, translated by Neil Smith, Spring Remains: A Thriller, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Emily Bestler Books, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: To overtake.
examples: text: [W]hen we emerged refueled from an air-conditioned café about forty-five minutes later, the temperature had leapfrogged at least ten degrees.
ref: 2015 March, Bruce Weber, “‘The Horse Doesn’t Think It’s a Real Cow’”, in Life is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-riding Obituarist, Scribner paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part 1, page 73:
glosses: To progress.
examples: text: In Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (Q.B.) at first instance, the issue was whether the claimant's psychologist in a personal injury claim was negligent because in a joint written statement with the other side's expert, she had resiled from her diagnosis of PTSD without comment or amendment of her report, greatly damaging the claimant's case. The claimant sued in negligence, the judge was constrained by the authorities, but granted a certificate under s. 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to leapfrog the case to the Supreme Court.
ref: 2012, Lord Justice [Rupert] Jackson, editor, Civil Procedure, volume 1, London: Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters, →ISBN, paragraph 35.12.4, page 1097:
topics: law
glosses: To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
examples: text: In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.
ref: 2012 December 4, James Genco, “Rosecrans Forges His Army”, in Into the Tornado of War: A History of the Twenty-First Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Bloomington, Ind.: Abbott Press, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.