Real Dictionary

frog
countable noun: A frog is a small creature with smooth skin, big eyes, and long back legs which it uses for jumping. Frogs usually live near water.
countable noun: Frogs is sometimes used to refer to French people.

frog in American English
any of various families of tailless, leaping anuran amphibians with long, powerful hind legs, short forelegs, a smooth skin, and webbed feet: it develops from a tadpole, and most species, when grown, are able to live either in water or on land that is nea

frog in American English 1
adjective: French or Frenchlike
intransitive verb: to hunt and catch frogs
noun: any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults

frog in American English 2
noun: an ornamental fastening for the front of a coat, consisting of a button and a loop through which it passes

frog in American English 3
noun: a device at the intersection of two tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to cross or branch from the other

frog in American English 4
noun: a triangular mass of elastic, horny substance in the middle of the sole of the foot of a horse or related animal

Frog in British English
noun: a derogatory word for a French person

frog in British English 1
noun: any insectivorous anuran amphibian of the family Ranidae, such as Rana temporaria of Europe, having a short squat tailless body with a moist smooth skin and very long hind legs specialized for hopping

frog in British English 2
noun: a decorative fastening of looped braid or cord, as on the front of a 19th-century military uniform

frog in British English 3
noun: a tough elastic horny material in the centre of the sole of a horse's foot

frog in British English 4
noun: a grooved plate of iron or steel placed to guide train wheels over an intersection of railway lines