Usually means: Humorous, five-line, rhymed verse form.
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  1. Limericks, limericks: Merriam-Webster
  2. limericks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Limericks, limericks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Limerick's, Limericks, limericks: Wordnik
  5. limericks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. limericks: Wiktionary
  7. limericks: Dictionary.com
  8. limericks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Limericks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Limericks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Limericks: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Limericks: Encyclopedia

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  1. Limericks: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Limerick)

noun:  A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
noun:  A county of Ireland.
noun:  A city in County Limerick.
noun:  A habitational surname from Irish.
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