leapfrog

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ldoce_198_bleap·frog1 /ˈliːpfrɒɡ $ -froːɡ, -frɑːɡ/ noun [uncountable]  DGOa children’s game in which someone bends over and someone else jumps over them 跳背游戏 →5  See picture of LEAPFROG 跳背游戏 →4  See picture of 见图 leapfrog

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leapfrog• Like leapfrog and friendships with older girls the teachers always put a stop to it.• Support vans play leapfrog with the runners, moving ahead a mile or so at a time.• More than 200 youngsters from North Road school in Darlington held a sponsored leapfrog to collect money for Oxfam.leapfrog2 verb (leapfrogged, leapfrogging) [intransitive, transitive]  PROGRESSto suddenly become better, more advanced etc than people or organizations that were previously better than you 超越，越过 The company leapfrogged its rivals into a leading position. 公司超越竞争对手，处于领先地位。→ See Verb table

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leapfrog• Secondly, word hypotheses might overlap and leapfrog each other's backwards pruning decision points.• Did 1973 respond to his plans to leapfrog into the elite who would be actually paid to drive?• The chief barrier to leapfrogging is government policy in developing countries.• The intention was to allow London to leapfrog its rivals into a leading position.• The result is that the countries are, in some respects, leapfrogging their more advanced neighbours.• The Cubs knew a win would leapfrog them into second place.Origin leapfrog1 (1500-1600) Because the jumping players look like frogs

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leapfrog

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leap‧frog¹ /ˈliːpfrɒɡ $ -froːɡ, -frɑːɡ/ noun [uncountable]a children’s game in which someone bends over and someone else jumps over them

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leapfrog² verb (past tense and past participle leapfrogged, present participle leapfrogging) [intransitive and transitive]
to suddenly become better, more advanced etc than people or organizations that were previously better than you:
    The company leapfrogged its rivals into a leading position.