Meaning of Leaping Lena | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A nickname for a vehicle.
2. A nickname for someone or something that leaps.
3. The name given to a 1954 Cold War hero pigeon.
4. The name given to a 1964 Vietnam War counterinsurgency operation in Laos, later renamed Project DELTA.

Examples

“The outboard motor is forever performing new stunts. The illustrations depict its latest—driving a real “Leaping Lena”—....”

“All branches of the service find jobs for the versatile quarter-ton liaison truck, a car of unlimited possibilities in war.”

“With the motor racing and the horns blaring, “Leaping Lena” would go around in circles, to the delight of the spectators.”

“That dear car's name began as “Leaping Lena,” which was not an original name with us. Lots of old cars were called “Leaping Lena.” But when the radiator began to leak, the children appropriately changed her name to “Leaking Lena.””

“Kingfish Levinsky's earning power is due partly to an engaging slapstick manner in the ring, an engaging entourage which includes his sister Mrs. Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed for her loud voice and strong talk.”

“The press here today proclaimed that Leaping Lena, a Natal Province frog, had beaten the Americans and broken the world's frog-jumping record at the Frog Olympics at Capetown.”

“However, not to be outdone, Harry's frog “Leaping Lena” took the Frog Leaping Championship by jumping nearly two feet farther than Clancy Coughburn's “Cutie Pie.””

“... anyone who was Jewish and had any sense would put on Catholic habits in a thrice if they could get away with it, or twirl like a dervish, or leap like any Leaping Lena, if it would do the trick.”

“During the Cold War Era, a German pigeon, Leaping Lena, made a fantastic flight through the Iron Curtain from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1954.”

“In roughly thirty days, SOG had several teams ready to "cross the fence" in an operation code-named “Leaping Lena”.”

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