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

---

Etymology

Origin of chibouk

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

Example Sentences

With an arch smile the Pasha laid down his chibouk and left the room, and the black attendant conducted Lancey to his bedroom.

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

Redbeard, as Lancey called him, mentally, reclined on a couch and smoked a chibouk.

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

He had trained himself to this truly military bearing by practising his most difficult passages whilst he smoked a long Turkish chibouk, the cup of which rested on the ground.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

There were, perhaps, fifty Turks inside and out; sitting cross-legged, smoking the chibouk, and drinking coffee out of cups not larger than the shell of a Madeira-nut.

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

Tyeglev pondered, heaved a deep sigh and dropping his chibouk out of his hand, informed me that that day was a very important one for him.

From Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance