English Dictionary

leapfrog

/ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/

verb

(transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog. / (transitive) To overtake. / (intransitive) To progress.

The athlete leapfrogged over the hurdle with ease.

意味（1）

(transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.

Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.

意味（2）

(transitive) To overtake.

This new product will leapfrog the competition.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To progress.

[W]hen we emerged refueled from an air-conditioned café about forty-five minutes later, the temperature had leapfrogged at least ten degrees.

意味（4）

(transitive, chiefly Britain, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.

In Jones v Kaney [2010] EWHC 61 (Q.B.) at first instance, the issue was whether the claimant's psychologist in a personal injury claim was negligent because in a joint written statement with the other side's expert, she had resiled from her diagnosis of PTSD without comment or amendment of her report, greatly damaging the claimant's case. The claimant sued in negligence, the judge was constrained by the authorities, but granted a certificate under s. 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to leapfrog the case to the Supreme Court.

意味（5）

(transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.

In late November and early December, General [William] Rosecrans juggled his units in preparation for the upcoming drive against [Braxton] Bragg. Among the changes, Sill's brigade relinquished its position in the advance of the army as other units leap-frogged south to the head of the army.