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follow-my-leader

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noun

  1. US, Canadian, and Irish name: follow-the-leader. a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But the race has tended to become follow-my-leader, with drivers controlling their pace to make sure their tyres reach the ideal time to make a pit stop.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

“I’d have just played follow-my-leader after Jamie all the way to Paris if you hadn’t reminded me to turn.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

They dance in one by one mysteriously round stage, in follow-my-leader fashion, over chair and stool, and crawl under table, round and round room as they sing.

From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg

So we set off—a long, straggling, follow-my-leader line of men and stretchers.

From At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. by John Hargrave

One of the curiosities of history was the great game of follow-my-leader, that the whole community used to play.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

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