Definitions for lickety-split

lickety-split lick·e·ty-split

Spelling: [lik-i-tee-split]
IPA: /ˈlɪk ɪ tiˈsplɪt/

Lickety-Split is a 13 letter English word.

You can make 566 anagrams from letters in lickety-split (-ceiikllpstty).

Definitions for lickety-split

adverb

  1. at great speed; rapidly:

Origin of lickety-split

1835-45, Americanism; perhaps dial. licket rag (for wiping in haste, with one lick) + -y1 + split, as in

Examples for lickety-split

He drives helter-skelter, lickety-split, and never takes care of his car at all.

And Beagle heard a noise he thought was a fox barking and he started for the tamarack swamp, lickety-split.

She thought her last-day was come, with the fences streaking past her lickety-split.

And away he goes at the head of the string, lickety-split for the beach.

A man was coming down from the north, lickety-split on a roan with a rangy stride.

I never stopped to ast her nothin', fo' I seen yuh a kitin' down street, an' I put after yuh, lickety-split.

On he fled, across the crisp fields, leaped the fence and struck the road, lickety-split!

They must have seed the carriage drivin' away, and thought for sure it had the gal in it, and they was after it, lickety-split.

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