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Definition

a humorous poem consisting of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

As a proper noun, Limerick usually references a city or county in Ireland.

Bob offered to pick up the tab for each of us who was willing to compose and share a limerick.

LIMERICK by Nate Wright
Lincoln Pierce -- Big Nate - In a Class by Himself

limerick = a humorous poem consisting of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

But only the deadliest prophecies are couched in the form of a limerick.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
He would run a limerick contest, or a series of coupons for victrola records, see a slight spurt of circulation and promptly forget the matter.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Bad poetry, but even Helen of Troy probably started with, like, a limerick, right?
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I knew they were exasperated with Da, but they had little patience for Mam, either, whose people were from Limerick and never lifted a finger to help.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
I was too nervous to bother explaining that one of my father's vices had been his propensity for dirty limericks.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Now, if you don't mind, Your Royalship, adi6s. l've got dirty limericks to write here.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
And to use the word 'science' in those flop-eared limericks or whatever you call 'em— it's sacrilege!
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
"Hey, can I try one of those sand dollars you bought?" asked David, tracing the carved lines of a limerick with his finger.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Babbitt lay awake in the close hot tomb of his Pullman berth, shaking with remembrance of the fat man's limerick about the lady who wished to be wild.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
He would be named Patrick for the first of my line of Grogans to arrive in the United States from County Limerick, Ireland.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
One night Matron took Ghosh aside and said: "Your limericks are usurping my prayers."
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
He was a sporting vagrant armed with a vast stock of stories, limericks and riddles.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
Dad has a saying for every subject under the sun—as well as a wide selection of limericks and truly terrible jokes.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
I'm trying to think of a limerick," said Eustace.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
Out in the Atlantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and settle forever in Limerick.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

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