The one-step leapfrog hybrid implicit-explicit finite-difference time-domain (HIE-FDTD) method for lossy media is presented. By adopting the Crank-Nicolson and Peaceman-Rachford schemes, the derived method involves calculations of the lossy terms at two different time steps. Different from the original HIE-FDTD method, the proposed method can also be considered as a second order perturbation of the conventional FDTD method. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, numerical experiments are performed by using different FDTD methods. It is shown that the proposed method can be more efficient than the conventional HIE-FDTD method with almost the same accuracy.