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chibouk

American  
[chi-book, -book] / tʃɪˈbuk, -ˈbʊk /
Or chibouque

noun

  1. a Turkish tobacco pipe with a stiff stem sometimes 4 or 5 feet (1.2 or 1.5 meters) long.


chibouk British  
/ tʃɪˈbuːk /

noun

  1. a Turkish tobacco pipe with an extremely long stem

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of chibouk

1805–15; < Turkish çibuk, variant of çubuk literally, shoot, sapling, staff

Example Sentences

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Quackenbush, however, made the effort, but a spasmodic coughing put an end to further attempts, and the result was that another chibouk was called for.

From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

We were invited in, and shown into a large room on the right, where three Greeks were sitting cross-legged on a divan, smoking the long Turkish chibouk.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd

When staying with the Birds, she was attended by an Arab girl, one of whose duties it was to prepare her mistress' chibouk, which was regularly brought in with the coffee.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

He led Lancey to the room in which they had first met, and, seating himself on a divan, lighted his chibouk.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Oh! some must tug the galley's oar, and some must tend the steed— This boy will bear a Scheik's chibouk, and that a Bey's jerreed.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

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