lickety cut

1. 1.

   without delay

   “she tackled the job lickety-split”

   Synonymslickety split

Questions about lickety cut

What does lickety cut mean?

lickety cut means "without delay".

What is another word for lickety cut?

Close synonyms include lickety split. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lickety cut a common word?

lickety cut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.