Definition of "limerick" []

• A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Annie – your limerick is a cracking piece .. will be by tomorrow to leave comments."
• "Barring "its", which leaves people confusedAnd following the limerick is a concise definition of the word."
• "You have a second career in limerick-writing, I think."