lickety-split

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Fission makes iPhone ringtones lickety-split - Fans of Rogue Amoeba's single-track audio editor Fission should be delighted to know that it's hit version 1.6, which sports such nifty features as the ability to insert silence into recordings and a command to specify the exact location of the playhead, plus a whole bunch of extra tweaks and bug fixes.

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  1. adverb Informal With great speed.

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  • Fission makes iPhone ringtones lickety-split - Fans of Rogue Amoeba's single-track audio editor Fission should be delighted to know that it's hit version 1.6, which sports such nifty features as the ability to insert silence into recordings and a command to specify the exact location of the playhead, plus a whole bunch of extra tweaks and bug fixes. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
 

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  1. lickety, very fast, alteration of lick, fast (dialectal) + split.

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  1. from lickety (see lickety-cut) + split.
 

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/ˈlɪkətɪˈsplɪt/
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