Usually means: Humorous, five-line, rhymed verse form.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. limerick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Limerick, limerick: Merriam-Webster
  3. Limerick, limerick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. limerick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. limerick: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Limerick, limerick: Vocabulary.com
  7. Limerick, limerick: Wordnik
  8. limerick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Limerick, limerick: Wiktionary
  10. limerick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. limerick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. limerick: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. limerick: Dictionary.com
  14. limerick: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. limerick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Limerick (disambiguation), Limerick (poetry), Limerick (song), Limerick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. limerick: Rhymezone
  18. Limerick (m), limerick, limerick (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. limerick: FreeDictionary.org
  20. limerick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Limerick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Limerick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  2. LIMERICK: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Limerick (city), limerick: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limerick: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Limerick: Urban Dictionary

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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.

Similar:
ottava rima, iambic tetrameter, iambic pentameter, terza rima, sonnet, biolet, ottavarima, long meter, higgledy-piggledy, Monk's Tale stanza, more...

Opposite:
haiku, couplet, tanka, tetrameter, pentameter, trimeter, dimeter, trismeter

Phrases:
limerick city, limerick lace, limerick ireland, Limerick ham, County Limerick, more...

Adjectives:
west, old, east, dirty, best, famous, native, known, mid, obscene, modern

Colors:
    green,     emerald,     shamrock,     lime,     kelly green, more...


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Similar:
ottava rima, iambic tetrameter, iambic pentameter, terza rima, sonnet, biolet, ottavarima, long meter, higgledy-piggledy, Monk's Tale stanza, more...

Opposite:
haiku, couplet, tanka, tetrameter, pentameter, trimeter, dimeter, trismeter

Phrases:
limerick city, limerick lace, limerick ireland, Limerick ham, County Limerick, University of Limerick, Limerick Generating Station, Limerick Soviet, Limerick to Foynes Railway Line, more...

Adjectives:
west, old, east, dirty, best, famous, native, known, mid, obscene, modern

Colors:
    green,     emerald,     shamrock,     lime,     kelly green, more...



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