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quickety split

quickety split is the misconstruction of lickety-split.

Meaning of lickety-split

Adverb

lickety-split (not comparable)

  1. Quickly; as fast as possible; in short order.
    • At the sound of the starting gun, they were off and running lickety-split.

Questions about quickety split

What is quickety split the misconstruction of?
Quickety split is the misconstruction of lickety-split.

Words near quickety split in the dictionary

  1. quickest
  2. quickest on the draw
  3. quickest sighted
  4. quickest-and-dirtiest
  5. quickest-sighted
  6. quickety split
  7. quickfire
  8. quickfrozen
  9. quickhanded
  10. quickhatch
  11. quickhatches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quickety split (page history and authors); lickety-split (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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