Limerick

  1. Proper noun.  A county in the Republic of Ireland.
  2. Proper noun.  A town in the county of Limerick.
  3. Noun.  A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme ''aabba'', and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.

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