Lickety-split

"Lickety-split" in a Sentence (5 examples)

I put on my socks lickety-split.

“I went lickety-split on my crutches nearly as fast as a boy could run,” he cried, immensely proud of this achievement, “and I was there in time and got a front seat.”

At the sound of the starting gun, they were off and running lickety-split.

I need tea right now, lickety-split.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lickety.

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