WATER PIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water pipe mean? 

• WATER PIPE (noun)
  The noun WATER PIPE 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: WATER PIPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER PIPE (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 ("water pipe" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

This approach could be particularly useful to help eradicate resistant biofilms — layers of bacteria that form for example in industrial water pipes and are hard to remove.

(Bacteria Can 'Divide and Conquer' to Vanquish Their Enemies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Water pipes in older homes may contain lead.

(Lead Poisoning, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)

Also called water pipe.

(Hookah, NCI Dictionary)