water pipe

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noun
  1. a pipe for conveying water.

  2. a smoking apparatus, as a hookah or narghile, in which the smoke is drawn through a container of water and cooled before reaching the mouth.

Origin of water pipe

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

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How to use water pipe in a sentence

  • In the night the water pipes had burst and flooded the kitchen floor, which by morning was covered with a layer of ice.

  • When I let down the line at the fifth point, the two men asked permission to light their water-pipes.

British Dictionary definitions for water pipe

water pipe

noun
  1. a pipe for water

  2. another name for hookah

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