leapfrog
English
/ˈliːpfɹɒɡ/, /ˈliːpfɹɑɡ/
noun
Definitions
- (games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people line lining up in a row and bend bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.
- (chiefly) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
Etymology
Compound from English leap (trap snare for fish made from twigs, basket, a basket) + English frog.
Origin
English
frog
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Leaper English
- bearleap English
- beleap English
- bullfrog English
- defrog English
- elope English
- forthleap English
- frog English
- frogbit English
- frogdom English
- frogeater English
- frogese English
- frogfish English
- frogger English
- froggery English
- froggish English
- froggy English
- froghood English
- froghopper English
- frogkind English
- frogless English
- froglet English
- froglike English
- frogling English
- frogly English
- frogman English
- frogmouth English
- frogness English
- frogsicle English
- frogskin English
- frogsome English
- frogspawn English
- leaf frog English
- leap English
- leap year English
- leapable English
- leaper English
- leapest English
- leapeth English
- leapfrogger English
- leapful English
- leapling English
- midleap English
- nonleap English
- outleap English
- overleap English
- tree frog English
- upleap English
- werefrog English
- frogge Middle English
- lepen Middle English
- frog Irish
- būro̧k Marshallese
- poloka Hawaiian
- brog Kriol
- leap
- frog
- elope
- leaper
- defrog
- beleap
- frogly
- froggy
- Leaper
- upleap
- midleap
- frogese
- frogger
- froglet
- frogdom
- leapest
- leapful
- frogman
- nonleap
- leapeth
- outleap
- frogbit
- frogling
- froggish
- frogness
- bullfrog
- frogsome
- froggery
- frogkind
- werefrog
- leapling
- froghood
- frogskin
- frogless
- frogfish
- froglike
- bearleap
- leapable
- overleap
- frogspawn
- forthleap
- leap year
- leaf frog
- frogeater
- frogmouth
- frogsicle
- tree frog
- froghopper
- leapfrogger