[ noun ] an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water <noun.artifact> a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola
Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oo^]k"[.a]), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called {narghile} and {water pipe}. The {hubble-bubble} is a simple form of this device. [1913 Webster +PJC]