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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert.
- adjective Wildly comic and improbable, as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
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- adjective wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas
- adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert
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