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(US, informal, usually compounded with a noun) At full speed, fast. quotations examples
Away they started, “lickety-click,” and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other.
1843, John S. Robb, Streaks of Squatter of Life, and Far-west Scenes, page 116
Lickity, lickity, switch, we came to the ford, and Chiquita / Buckled right down to her work
1886, Bret Harte, “Chiquita”, in Abraham Firth, editor, Voices for the Speechless, page 95