Leapfrog

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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 they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.

   “La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.”

2. isim The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To overtake.

   “This new product will leapfrog the competition.”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
7. fiil 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.”

8. özel isim Laphroaig whisky.

   “I poured myself some more Glen Generic then saw that somebody had brought a bottle of cask-strength Laphroaig, so abandoned my first glass and poured another of the Leapfrog and went to the fridge for some water.”