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A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
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hookah
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Word definitions for hookah in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in 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: narghile , nargileh , sheesha , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eventually the headman passed on the hookah stem and stood up, saying he'd go and fetch the soothsayer.
Usage examples of hookah.
In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.
Dr Jacob seized Stephen, kissed him on both cheeks and led him into a cool, shaded room where a jug of horchata stood on a low table and smoke from the hookah hung from the ceiling down to eye level.
At night he listened to his rebetika records in the attic and smoked his hookah pipe.
Half a dozen guerrillas too young to grow beards sat around a small potbellied stove sucking on hookahs.
Thick coils of smoke rose from the hookah before the hold-mistress, wreathing her knife-kissed features in the cloying, tarry fumes.
Racks of demented comic books loomed beside tables littered with hookahs and handmade clay pipes.
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.