hookah Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
    hubble-bubble; sheesha; kalian; hubbly-bubbly; nargileh; water pipe; calean; shisha; chicha; narghile.
    • a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola

WordNet

Hook"ah noun
Etymology
Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.
Definitions
  1. A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. see hubble-bubble; also water pipe

Webster 1913