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• lickety-split — 1852, Amer.Eng. (earlier lickety cut, lickety click, and simply licketie, 1817), from LICK (Cf. lick) (n.1) in dialectal sense very fast sprint in a race (1809) on the notion of a lick as a fast thing (Cf. blink) …   Etymology dictionary

• lickety-cut — • lickety split • lickety cut adv informal At full speed; with a rush. As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool …   Словарь американских идиом

• lickety-split — • lickety split • lickety cut adv informal At full speed; with a rush. As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool …   Словарь американских идиом

• Lickety-Splat — is a 1961 Warner Bros.Looney Tunes theatrical animated short. It features Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner and was made under the supervision of Chuck Jones.Wile E. Coyote, standing on the road, pulls out an arrow shaped sign saying Coyote and… …   Wikipedia

• lickety-split — ☆ lickety split [lik′ə tē split′ ] adv. [fanciful formation based on LICK, n. 4c] Informal at great speed …   English World dictionary

• lickety-split — adv. colloq. at full speed; headlong. Etymology: prob. f. LICK (cf. at full lick) + SPLIT * * * lickety split 7 [ˌlɪkəti ˈsplɪt] [ˌlɪkəti ˈsplɪt] adverb (NAmE …   Useful english dictionary

• lickety-split — also[lickety cut] {adv.}, {informal} At full speed; with a rush. * /As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• lickety-split — also[lickety cut] {adv.}, {informal} At full speed; with a rush. * /As soon as school was out the boys ran lickety split to the swimming pool./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• lickety-split — [likidi”split] mod. very fast. □ They ran across the field lickety split. □ We were there lickety split in my new car …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• lickety cut — adverb without delay she tackled the job lickety split • Syn: ↑lickety split …   Useful english dictionary

• lickety split — adverb without delay she tackled the job lickety split • Syn: ↑lickety cut …   Useful english dictionary