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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

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.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

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

Marshal, with lickety-split wit: “Some would say infamous.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022

I go to the Stanford website, find a directory of undergraduates and lickety-split, I find his email.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson




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