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What does lickety-split mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lickety-split? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. Quickly; as fast as possible; in short order.
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The high-pressure water stream can eat a hole in your fence or make kindling out of your lattice lickety-split.
However, I can now turn over my OR and do my machine check or jam a needle into your spine lickety-split.
Whipping out lickety-split footwork and curiously fey gestures in improbable succession, his character seemed controlled by external forces.
The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity.
The Chair: It's not a problem, just read at a reasonable pace because our translators sometimes have difficulty when people go lickety-split.
We also ordered a bottle of sake, which arrived lickety-split.

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