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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.






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"Leapfrog" Quotes from Famous Books



... summoned him out of mere presumption, seized him by the throat and strangled him. When Agrippa returned, a few days afterwards, he found his house beset with devils. Some of them were sitting on the chimneypots, kicking up their legs in the air; while others were playing at leapfrog, on the very edge of the parapet. His study was so filled with them that he found it difficult to make his way to his desk. When, at last, he had elbowed his way through them, he found his book open, and the student lying dead upon the floor. He saw immediately ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

... seemed perfectly safe. Tess and Dot strolled along the block, their feet rustling the carpet of leaves that had now fallen from the trees. Sammy Pinkney was playing solitaire leapfrog over all posts ...
— The Corner House Girls Growing Up - What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended • Grace Brooks Hill



Words linked to "Leapfrog" :   advance, onward motion, procession, child's game, come along, get along, progression, spring, get on, leap, forward motion, bound, jump, advancement, progress, shape up, come on



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