Hookah

Quick meaning: Hookah is a noun meaning (underwater diving) A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

Meaning

(underwater diving) A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

More Meanings

1. (recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

Example Sentences

But Dubai is resilient, at least when it comes to partying. “Everyone just went back to their hookah and food a minute later,” said Babayan.

Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.

The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.

When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.

Word Forms

• hookahs
• hooka
• hooker

Synonyms for hookah

Depending on context, synonyms include hubble-bubble, narghile, shisha, kalian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include narghile, hubble-bubble, kalian, pipe, waterpipe, hashpipe.

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