Definitions
progress by large jumps instead of small increments
Word origin
From leap + frog.
Used in a sentence
“La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.”
“Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to spell every third word, and then she made a mess of it.”
“Zachary Black jumps out from behind a bush. My heart leapfrogs up my throat, climbs out of my mouth and scarpers down the street.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Advance by jumps”8 letters
02“Jumping game”8 letters
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