Definition of "lickety-split" []

• Informal With great speed. (adverb)

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• "If they are effective, they get promoted out of publicity lickety-split!"
• "We just figure out how to travel those 20 light years to Gliese 581G lickety-split."
• "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."