1852, American English (earlier lickety-cut, lickety-click, and simply licketie, 1817), from lick (n.1) in dialectal sense "very fast sprint in a race" (1809) on the notion of a "lick" as a fast thing (compare blink).
双语例句
1. The trucks sang " lickety - lick , lickety - lick " as the train ran through the factory district.