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noun | verb leapfrogleapfrog1 /ˈlipfrɑg/ noun [uncountable] ETYMOLOGYleapfrog1Origin: 1500-1600 Because the jumping players look like frogs a children’s game in which someone bends over and someone else jumps over him or her noun | verb leapfrogleapfrog2 verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLEleapfrog |
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 |
to achieve something more quickly than usual, especially by missing some of the usual stages: The win leapfrogged them into second place. |