Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) fast; also adj.

1876		Wide Awake 236/2: You can’t describe a boy running down hill without saying he went ‘lickety-split,’ or ‘lickety brindle’ [DA].
1887		Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 5 July 3/2: Bucephalus [...] started off through Seventh street, ‘lickety-brindle’ for his stable.
1897		McCook Trib. (NE) 12 Mar. 4/4: Bob Johns hereby has our unqualified permission to pitch in at a lickety-brindle gait.
1901		Kansas Hist. Coll. (1902) VII 61: We had only revolvers with us, and away they came lickety brindle [DA].
1903		Hickman Courier (KY) 27 Feb. 3/4: Ther rat wuz outer ther door goin’ lickety brindle fer er corn field .
1909		A.B. Paine Capt. Bill MacDonald 119: Out of it piled the six outlaws and broke ‘lickety brindle’ for the creek bottom.
1913		J.T. Foote Blister Jones 115: I’se countin’ de money one day an’ a span ob mules broke loose an’ stahts lickety-brindle fo’ de balm.
1933		D. Thomas Ma Jeeter’s Girls 52: Kelly, he just barely spoke to ’em and run down and got in his car and drove off lickety brindle.
1940		R.C. Mitchell Of Human Kindness 283: I suppose he went lickety-brindle on that infernal machine of his straight back to that strumpet.
1955		J.F. Dobie Tales of Old-time Texas 47: They saw the gun-smoke, and now, all on foot, they took out for it lickety-brindle, hellety-split,.
2009		L.B. Robbins Lawn Wars 174: I saw my two cats bounding lickety-brindle, with tails puffed out like chimney brushes.