lickety-split









lickety-split


adverb Informal.

  1. at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.

adverb

  1. US and Canadian informal very quickly; speedily

adj.1852, American English (earlier lickety-cut, lickety-click, and simply licketie, 1817), from lick (n.1) in dialectal sense “very fast sprint in a race” (1809) on the notion of a “lick” as a fast thing (cf. blink).

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