lickety split

1. 1.

   without delay

   “she tackled the job lickety-split”

   Synonymslickety cut

Questions about lickety split

What does lickety split mean?

lickety split means "without delay".

What is another word for lickety split?

Close synonyms include lickety cut. 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 split a common word?

lickety split 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.