Usually means: Advanced quickly past others unexpectedly.
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  1. leapfrogged: Merriam-Webster
  2. leapfrogged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leapfrogged: Collins English Dictionary
  4. leapfrogged: Vocabulary.com
  5. leapfrogged: Wordnik
  6. leapfrogged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. leapfrogged: Wiktionary
  8. leapfrogged: Dictionary.com
  9. leapfrogged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. leapfrogged: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. leapfrogged: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Leapfrog)

noun:  (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 lining up in a row and 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.
noun:  (chiefly British, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
verb:  (transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
verb:  (transitive) To overtake.
verb:  (intransitive) To progress.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly British, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
verb:  (transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
noun:  (slang, humorous) Laphroaig whisky.
▸ Also see leapfrog


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