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Noun: clerihew  'kle-ri,hyoo
  1. 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"

Derived forms: clerihews

Type of: rhyme, verse

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