Usually means: Jump or spring a long way.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. leap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. leap: Collins English Dictionary
  3. leap: Vocabulary.com
  4. Leap, leap: Wordnik
  5. leap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. LEAP, Leap, leap: Wiktionary
  7. leap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. leap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. leap: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Leap, leap: Dictionary.com
  11. leap (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. leap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. LEAP (programming language), LEAP (software bundle), LEAP, Leap (computer worm), Leap (film), Leap, Leap, The Leap (How I Met Your Mother), The Leap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Leap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. leap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. leap: Rhymezone
  17. leap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. leap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. LEAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. leap: Free Dictionary
  21. leap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Leap, leap: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. leap: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. leap: Merriam-Webster.com
  25. leap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leap: Legal dictionary
  2. leap: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. leap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEAP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. leap: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leap: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See leaped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To jump.
verb:  (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
verb:  (archaic) To copulate with (a human)
verb:  (transitive) To cause to leap.
noun:  The act of leaping or jumping.
noun:  The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
noun:  A group of leopards.
noun:  (figuratively) A significant move forward.
noun:  (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
noun:  (mining) A fault.
noun:  Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
noun:  (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
noun:  A salmon ladder.
adjective:  (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
noun:  A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
noun:  Half a bushel.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.

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