LEAPFROG
NOUNS
► BULLFROG the game of leapfrog → 1981 Amer. dial.
► INCHY-PINCHY the boys’ game of progressive leapfrog: A makes a back, B pitches and makes a back, C pitches over A and B makes a back; A then rises and pitches over B and C, etc.; the form is ‘Inchy-pinchy, last lie down.’; the player who first cries this is entitled to wait until all the players are ‘down,’ before he leaps → 1893 Eng. dial.
► LANKISTER-LOUP the game of leapfrog → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEAP-LONG-MARE the game of leapfrog → 1894 Eng. dial.
► LEAP-THE-BULLOCK the game of leapfrog → 1902 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► LEAP-THE-LONG-MARE the game of leapfrog → 1894 Eng. dial.
► ONE-AND-OVER leapfrog → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SKIP-FROG the game of leapfrog → 1727 obs.
VERBS
► VANT to vault, as in the game of leap-frog → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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