lickety-split

[lik-i-tee-split]

adverb

Informal.

1. at great speed; rapidly.

   to travel lickety-split.

lickety-split

/ ˈlɪkɪtɪˈsplɪt /

adverb

1. informal,  very quickly; speedily

Word 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lickety-split¹

C19: from _lick + _split

Example Sentences

You’ve also got regional differences where New York Bar officials went lickety-split to suspend Giuliani’s law license, whereas in Texas they dismissed a complaint against Sidney Powell.

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A former child prodigy on the mandolin, Hull opened the evening flexing her Berklee-trained chops in a series of lickety-split bluegrass numbers that got early arrivers whistling with approval.

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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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