Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb With great speed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Headlong; very fast.
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- adverb
Quickly ; asfast as possible; in short order.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Or rather, I would say, there is nothing to exit, since we haven't "entered" this conflict, we have remained 10,000 feet above it and have turned over the lion's share to NATO lickety-split.
Scott White: Obama's Speech on Libya (I WIsh) Scott White 2011
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BOB hops from the ground to the lift, lickety-split.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Both the introduction and the talking points sections are running a bit long this week insert your own "how can you possibly tell, given their usual length?" joke here, if you must, so we're going to hand out the awards in lickety-split fashion this week.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011
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Or rather, I would say, there is nothing to exit, since we haven't "entered" this conflict, we have remained 10,000 feet above it and have turned over the lion's share to NATO lickety-split.
Scott White: Obama's Speech on Libya (I WIsh) Scott White 2011
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BOB hops from the ground to the lift, lickety-split.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Both the introduction and the talking points sections are running a bit long this week insert your own "how can you possibly tell, given their usual length?" joke here, if you must, so we're going to hand out the awards in lickety-split fashion this week.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011
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We just figure out how to travel those 20 light years to Gliese 581G lickety-split.
2030: The date we need to double our Earth Melissa Bell 2010
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If they are effective, they get promoted out of publicity lickety-split!
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We were sort of guests there and so it was a lot of fun to be in it together, trying to learn Romanian in lickety-split time and trying to make our fans happy.
Buffy's Charisma Carpenter: Working on Supernatural Was Super Tasty 2011
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But his neck was full of non-stick slime so I kept saying goodbye to my life, going down lickety-split to my brother's waiting tummy.
The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012
slumry commented on the word lickety-split
an old fav. Now I should start my least favorite word list with fav. Is there a word for using words that you dislike?
June 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lickety-split
I believe the word you're looking for is yuck. ;-)
June 21, 2007
nell_nelson commented on the word lickety-split
Merriam Webster says of lickety-split
Etymology: probably irregular from lick + split
Date: circa 1859
: at great speed
November 9, 2009