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say it: LEEP-frawg
leapfrog is a noun and verb meaning "advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors". It is pronounced /ˈlipˌfɹɔɡ/ — LEEP-frawg. It carries 4 recorded senses.
advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors
“the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends”
a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
jump across
“He leapfrogged his classmates”
progress by large jumps instead of small increments
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for leapfrog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.