leapfrognoun [ U ]
uk/ˈliːp.frɒɡ/us/ˈliːp.frɑːɡ/a children's game in which a number of children bend down and another child jumps over them one at a time
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Children's games
- blind man's buff
- conker
- double Dutch
- follow-my-leader
- hangman
- hide-and-seek
- hoopla
- hopscotch
- life
- marble
- midget
- peekaboo
- piggy in the middle
- piggyback
- play
- pretend
- show-and-tell
- spitball
- tag
- trick-or-treating
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leapfrogverb [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈliːp.frɒɡ/us/ˈliːp.frɑːɡ/-gg-to improve your position by going past other people quickly or by missing out some stages:
They've leapfrogged from third to first place.
She leapfrogged several older colleagues to get the manager's job.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
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