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leapfrog1 nounleapfrog2 verb leapfrogleap‧frog1 /ˈliːpfrɒɡ $ -froːɡ, -frɑːɡ/ noun [uncountable] leapfrog1Origin: 1500-1600 Because the jumping players look like frogs - Like leapfrog and friendships with older girls the teachers always put a stop to it.
- More than 200 youngsters from North Road school in Darlington held a sponsored leapfrog to collect money for Oxfam.
- Support vans play leapfrog with the runners, moving ahead a mile or so at a time.
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Present | I, you, we, they | leapfrog | | he, she, it | leapfrogs | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | leapfrogged | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have leapfrogged | | he, she, it | has leapfrogged | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had leapfrogged | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will leapfrog | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have leapfrogged |
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Present | I | am leapfrogging | | he, she, it | is leapfrogging | | you, we, they | are leapfrogging | Past | I, he, she, it | was leapfrogging | | you, we, they | were leapfrogging | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been leapfrogging | | he, she, it | has been leapfrogging | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been leapfrogging | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be leapfrogging | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been leapfrogging |
- The Cubs knew a win would leapfrog them into second place.
- Did 1973 respond to his plans to leapfrog into the elite who would be actually paid to drive?
- Secondly, word hypotheses might overlap and leapfrog each other's backwards pruning decision points.
- The chief barrier to leapfrogging is government policy in developing countries.
- The intention was to allow London to leapfrog its rivals into a leading position.
- The result is that the countries are, in some respects, leapfrogging their more advanced neighbours.
to suddenly become better, more advanced etc than people or organizations that were previously better than you: The company leapfrogged its rivals into a leading position. |