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HUBBLY-BUBBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hubbly-bubbly mean? 

HUBBLY-BUBBLY (noun)
  The noun HUBBLY-BUBBLY 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 waterplay

  Familiarity information: HUBBLY-BUBBLY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HUBBLY-BUBBLY (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 ("hubbly-bubbly" is a kind of...):

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


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