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water pipe

1. A pipe that is a conduit for water.

2. An apparatus for smoking, such as a hookah, in which the smoke is drawn through a container of water or ice and cooled before inhaling.

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water pipe

1. (Building) a pipe for water

2. (Brewing) another name for hookah

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wa′ter pipe`

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.

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Noun

water pipe - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"

calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha

pipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

Translations

شيشة

Wasserleitung Wasserpfeife

νεροσωλήνας

narguilé

vannledningvannpipevannrør

водопровод

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