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lickety-split

[ lik-i-tee-split ]

adverb

Informal.
  1. at great speed; rapidly:

    to travel lickety-split.



lickety-split

/ ˈ±ôɪ°ìɪ³Ùɪˈ²õ±è±ôɪ³Ù /

adverb

  1. informal.
    very quickly; speedily
“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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lickety-split1

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45; lickety, a fanciful extension of lick “to move quickly†+ split, “fraction,†as in split second
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lickety-split1

C19: from lick + split
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Mexico had apparently agreed to it, but the deal was derailed by the Mexican-American War, and California lickety-split became a part of the United States.

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Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace could have supplied us, lickety-split.

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You then proceeded to get on your back halfway off the curb on the parking strip, quickly and efficiently changed my tire and I was on my way lickety-split.

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In the handful of years between the end of World War I and the 1929 stock market crash, Los Angeles became, lickety-split, the aviation capital of the nation.

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Erlan came to the door lickety-split and tugged me down the hall toward the room he shared with his brothers.

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