leap-frog noun & adjective.
['li:pfrɒg] L16.[from LEAP verb + FROG noun1.]A. noun.
1. A game in which one player places his or her hands on the bent back or shoulders of another and vaults over him or her with legs apart, typically then becoming the one, or the last of a line, to be leaped over while the (first) bent-over player becomes the leaper. Also, a vault of this kind.
L16.2. fig. The taking of turns in moving to the front, the action or process of leap-frogging;
spec. (a) Military a method of maintaining constant communication with a moving command by keeping one instrument in operation while another moves past it to a position in front;
(b) competition for higher wages by leap-frogging.
E20.b. attrib. or as
adjective. Of the nature or style of leap-frog, a leap-frog, or leap-frogging.
E17.Time Sequential or 'leap-frog' bypasses around two blocked sections of the arteries. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲
leap-frog verb.
['li:pfrɒg] Infl.
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L19.[from the noun.]1. verb intrans.a. Leap or vault as at leap-frog.
L19.■ R. Kipling He..tried to leapfrog into the saddle. fig.:
■ A. Powell Through column-writing and minor editorships, he had..leapfrogged into a..promising position in Fleet Street.b. Military. Of detachments or units, esp. in an attack: go in advance of each other by turns.
E20.c. Demand higher wages every time a group of comparable wage-earners has succeeded in pulling level or getting ahead. Chiefly as
leap-frogging verbal noun & ppl adjective.
M20.New York Times Direct controls may check 'leapfrogging' by unions..to..maintain..wages relative to those of other workers.2. verb trans. Leap or vault over as at leap-frog; move in front of by leap-frogging.
L19.■ A. J. Barker The two rear companies were picked up..and leap-frogged to the head of the main column. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲