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lickety-split

[lik-i-tee-split] / ˈlɪk ɪ tiˈsplɪt /
ADJECTIVE
very fast
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
slw


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

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The world is changing at a lickety-split pace, but the return of GiveBIG on May 2-3 reminds us that the desire to do good is an unchanging feature of the human heart.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Construction started barely three weeks ago, but the building is going up lickety-split.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2020

David, in fact, likes to go to the very top of that hill and then go running lickety-split down it, racing to see who’s first to the fence at the bottom.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor




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