hookah

3 definitions found

hookah - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

hookah - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hookah
      n 1: 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, water pipe, hubble- bubble
           , hubbly-bubbly]

hookah - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "hookah":
     Missouri meerschaum, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet,
     churchwarden, clay, corncob, corncob pipe, hubble-bubble,
     meerschaum, nargileh, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack,
     tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, water pipe