limerick: Meaning and Definition of

lim•er•ick

1. a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.

Lim•er•ick

1. a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 100,865; 1037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
2. its county seat: a seaport at the head of the Shannon estuary. 60,721.
3. a fishhook having a sharp bend below the barb.