an oriental pipe for smoking marijuana, tobacco, etc, consisting of one or more long flexible stems connected to a container of water or other liquid through which smoke is drawn and cooled
Also called: hubble-bubble, kalian, narghile, water pipe
Word origin
C18: from Arabic huqqah
hookah in American English
(ˈhʊkə; ˈhukə) or ˈhooka (ˈhʊkə; ˈhukə)
noun
a kind of water pipe associated with the Middle East, with a long flexible tube for drawing the smoke through water in a vase or bowl and cooling it