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1. (n.) clerihew
a verse form in two couplets, usu. lampooning a person named in the first line.
Etymology: (1925–30; after E. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), English writer, its inventor)
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1. (noun) clerihew
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
"`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
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