hookah
or hook·a
a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
Origin of hookah
1- Also called narghile.
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How to use hookah in a sentence
The group of students smoking hookahs on a mat serves as a reminder of the elusive dream of a new Middle East.
The Upper West Side Celebrates An Imaginary Israel’s Birthday | Vered Kellner | April 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMost men had eaten and pulled deep at their gurgling, grunting hookahs, which in full blast sound like bull-frogs.
Kim | Rudyard KiplingThe room, with its dirty cushions and half-smoked hookahs, smelt abominably of stale tobacco.
Kim | Rudyard KiplingLower down are several young girls in light drapery, laughing, talking and smoking their hookahs.
Hookahs and chupatties tugging at their heart-strings, roused them to mild rebellion.
Captain Desmond, V.C. | Maud Diver
Then they went out and bathed and came back and had some curds and rice and sat for a while smoking their hookahs.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas | Cecil Henry Bompas
British Dictionary definitions for hookah
hooka
/ (ˈhʊkə) /
an oriental pipe for smoking marijuana, tobacco, etc, consisting of one or more long flexible stems connected to a container of water or other liquid through which smoke is drawn and cooled: Also called: hubble-bubble, kalian, narghile, water pipe
Origin of hookah
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