leapfrogged

Verb

leapfrog (third-person singular simple present leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging, simple past and past participle leapfrogged)

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.2016, Nick [Nicholas] Falk, chapter 1, in How to Beat Genghis Khan in an Arm Wrestle, North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, Penguin Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 6
2. (transitive) To overtake.
   • This new product will leapfrog the competition.
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.2015 March, Bruce Weber, “‘The Horse Doesn’t Think It’s a Real Cow’”, in Life is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-riding Obituarist, Scribner paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Simon & Schuster...
4. (UK, transitive) 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...2012, Lord Justice [Rupert] Jackson, editor, Civil Procedure, volume 1, London: Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters, →ISBN, paragraph 35.12.4, page 1097
5. (transitive) 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.2012 December 4, James Genco, “Rosecrans Forges His Army”, in Into the Tornado of War: A History of the Twenty-First Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Bloomington, Ind.: Abbott Press, →ISBN

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