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CALEAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calean mean?
• CALEAN (noun)
The noun CALEAN 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: CALEAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("calean" is a kind of...):
pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)
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