leapfrog

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors
noun a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
verb jump across

From leap + frog.

Bloom stoops his back for leapfrog. — Ulysses, James Joyce
Leapfrog is one of his methods of getting over the ground quickly. — McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
For, after all, man is a spiritual being, and not a mere living money-bag jumping from profit to profit, and breaking the backbone of human races in its financial leapfrog. — Creative Unity, Rabindranath Tagore

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