Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called
narghile andwater pipe . Thehubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
pipe with a long flexible tube that draws thesmoke throughwater . Originally invented in India, it gained most popularity in the Arab world. It is traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Which is not to say that if Charlie came home and found a hippie stealing from his stash he would have hesitated to break a hookah over his head.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Which is not to say that if Charlie came home and found a hippie stealing from his stash he would have hesitated to break a hookah over his head.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Which is not to say that if Charlie came home and found a hippie stealing from his stash he would have hesitated to break a hookah over his head.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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For emotional transportation, the hookah is the least of it.
Regina Weinreich: Patricia Clarkson Smokes a Hookah in Cairo Time 2010
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Of course, the water pipes known as hookah, narghiles, sheeshas or hubble-bubbles have been around for centuries.
West Meets East 2007
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Shaheed soon discovers that inside the hookah is a genie "jinn," as he corrects Shaheed named Shams, who needs Shaheed's help to retrieve a box from Nar.
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A hookah is a large water pipe of Middle Eastern origin used to smoke a very smooth tobacco often flavored with fruit or molasses.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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Young Americans are smoking fewer cigarettes, but researchers say that progress is threatened by an increasingly popular cultural import -- the tall, ornate water pipe known as the hookah.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Young Americans are smoking fewer cigarettes, but researchers say that progress is threatened by an increasingly popular cultural import -- the tall, ornate water pipe known as the hookah.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Shisha tobacco comes in a variety of fruit and other flavours and is smoked with a device called a hookah pipe.
sonofgroucho commented on the word hookah
When we were in Egypt they seemed to use the term Shisha pipe.
October 14, 2007