from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hubble-bubble
n 1: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube
connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by
passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and
Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn:
{hookah}, {narghile}, {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha},
{chicha}, {calean}, {kalian}, {water pipe}, {hubble-
bubble}, {hubbly-bubbly}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hubble-bubble \Hub"ble-bub`ble\, n.
A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through
water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India,
the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell. It
is a simple type of {hookah}.
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