Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oo^]k"[.a]), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.
Nargile \Nar"gile\, Nargileh \Nar"gi*leh\, n. [Per. n[=a]rgh[=i]l, prop., a cocoanut; prob. so called because first made of a cocoanut.] An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water. Also called hoookah and water pipe. Functionally similar to the hubble-bubble, a simplified form.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pipe that is a conduit for water; an essential element of plumbing. 2 A device for smoking, such as a hookah or bong, in which the smoke is drawn through a container of water before inhaling.
WordNet
n. an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn: hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly]
Usage examples of "water pipe".
Looking around quickly, I found a water pipe with a spigot standing nearby.
But if the water pipe was not filled with obstructions or too narrow for a man, they might have the pleasure of exploring their cave from entrance shaft to outfall before they shared the secret of its existence with the caving fraternity.
Wintergreen struck open a water pipe while digging in one of his holes and almost drowned to death before he was fished out nearly unconscious.
In the old days, the spout had funneled the water collected from the Maelstrom into a water pipe lowered from Aristagon.
Well, I was impressed by the huge blue Caterpillar smoking the hookah atop the giant mushroom because I know how hard it is to keep a water pipe lit.
He was trying to claw the pulp out of his eyes and spit it out of his mouth when I broke his water pipe over his head.
The other patrons pretended not to notice Nefret's enjoyment of the water pipe, just as they had pretended not to notice her, the only woman present.