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Leap out   /lip aʊt/   Listen
Leap out

verb
1.
Be highly noticeable.  Synonyms: jump, jump out, stand out, stick out.
2.
Jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone).  Synonyms: burst forth, rush out, sally out.






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"Leap out" Quotes from Famous Books



... I presume we are to take turns for three jumps, the one who makes the best leap out of the number is ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish

... chary of naming the subject. "It is a stride beyond the art of the future: it is a flying leap out of the Not Yet into the Possibly Perhaps! I thank you for enlightening me, Mr. Blythe. I ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers

... land, oh, how the vastness calls! Far land, star land, oh, how the stillness falls! For you never can tell if it's heaven or hell, And I'm taking the trail on trust; But I haven't a doubt That my soul will leap out ...
— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service

... rules, that exactly so, under stress of activity must the doll Nevil, the doll Everard, or the dolliest of dolls, fair woman, behave. The automatic creature is subject to the laws of its construction, you perceive. It can this, it can that, but it cannot leap out of its mechanism. One definition of the art is, humour made easy, and that may be why Cecil Baskelett indulged in it, and why it is popular with those whose humour consists of a ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... ruffled by a passing wind or bright under a summer sun, and whose tides duly rise and fall. But they little think of the oceanic vastness which it represents; and how its oscillations come from great currents that leap out of the Antarctic, and swell around tropical islands, and sweep the lines of continents, and roll in ...
— Humanity in the City • E. H. Chapin


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