HOOKAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hookah mean? 

• HOOKAH (noun)
  The noun HOOKAH has 1 sense:

1. an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

  Familiarity information: HOOKAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOKAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

calean; chicha; hookah; hubble-bubble; hubbly-bubbly; kalian; narghile; nargileh; sheesha; shisha; water pipe

Context example:

a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola

Hypernyms ("hookah" is a kind of...):

pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)

 Context examples 

Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking.

(Hookah, NCI Dictionary)

Hookah smoking can lead to nicotine addiction and can cause many of the same health problems as cigarette smoking.

(Hookah, NCI Dictionary)

Hookah tobacco smoke contains nicotine and many cancer-causing chemicals that are harmful to both smokers and nonsmokers.

(Hookah, NCI Dictionary)

In a hookah, charcoal is used to heat the tobacco.

(Hookah, NCI Dictionary)