Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By leaps and bounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By leaps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
leaping motion; inbounds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among the women security guards, many were leapingly chanting the slogan 'Down with the brokering system.'
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We have two great candidates -- one a hard working, never give up eager beaver, and one an inspiring, heart-leapingly brilliant stallion.
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It closes with a heart-leapingly loud burst of static - the same burst that opens the record, and well, we're back where we started.
The Line Of Best Fit Matt Poacher 2010
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Still, a lot of good work ” verifiable, informative, brain-leapingly strange ” is being cast out of this paperless, infinitely expandable accordion folder by people who have a narrow, almost grade-schoolish notion of what sort of curiosity an online encyclopedia will be able to satisfy in the years to come.
The Charms of Wikipedia Baker, Nicholson 2008
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