Associations to the word «Leaping»

Wiktionary

LEAPING, verb. Present participle of leap
LEAPING HOUSE, noun. (obsolete) A brothel.
LEAPING LENA, proper noun. A nickname for a vehicle.
LEAPING LENA, proper noun. A nickname for someone or something that leaps.
LEAPING LENA, proper noun. The fictional name given to a B-52 bomber in the 1944 movie The Purple Heart.
LEAPING LENA, proper noun. The name given to a 1954 Cold War hero pigeon.
LEAPING LENA, proper noun. The name given to a 1964 Vietnam War counterinsurgency operation in Laos, later renamed Project DELTA.

Dictionary definition

LEAPING, noun. A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats