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bowl

bowl

44 6.7
The rounded part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco
  • noun
  • /boʊl/
translation icon : cazoleta
  • He packed the tobacco into the bowl of his pipe before lighting it.
  • bowl of the pipe

And he just he hit the bowl and it's like skull and then just fucking boop, dude.

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Examples

  • The rounded bowl at the top of the smoking pipe holds the tobacco.

  • She carefully cleaned the bowl of her smoking pipe to ensure a better flavor.

  • Even the water in the toilet bowl had a skin of ice on it.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • But when she went downstairs to get his bowl, the dog was nowhere to be seen.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Part of the small bowl of the pipe atop the little figure is missing.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Silas knocked the dottle out of his pipe, banging the bowl gently against an ash tree.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • There were lyres, including a fine ancient one from Mycenae whose bowl-shaped soundbox was faced with a tortoiseshell.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

pipe bowl
vsbowl
6.5

The round open part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco

has identical meaning but is the shorter single-word form

Idioms

To say you need to go to the toilet to poop as a joke

Compounds

13 1.0

A large part of a toilet that holds waste until you flush

12 2.6

A large deep bowl for serving drinks at parties

11 1.0

A large bowl for putting ingredients together when you cook or bake

4 1.0

A deep dish for serving and eating soup

3 6.5

A dry area with strong dust storms that ruined farms in the 1930s

3 1.0

A small container for serving sugar at the table

3 1.0

A bowl for mixing and serving salad

2 1.0

A bowl used for eating breakfast cereal

finger bowl
  • Archaic
2 7.0

A small bowl of water for rinsing fingers between courses

1 7.5

A bowl that people use to collect money or food from others

bowl of cherries
  • Informal
1 6.0

A very pleasant situation

1 1.4

A clear round container to keep small pet fish

1 2.6

A bowl of rice served with toppings, or a person's job that gives them money

A serving of Japanese noodle soup with hot broth and toppings like meat or egg

A round clear glass container used to keep small pet fish

goldfish bowl
  • Informal
1 6.5

A situation where others watch you closely and you have no privacy

bowl chopper
  • Specialized
7.6

A machine that chops and mixes meat quickly with fast blades in a round bowl

bowl cutter
  • Specialized
6.1

A machine that chops and mixes meat and other food inside a spinning bowl

A portion of lau kui served hot in a bowl

4.6

A situation where many people watch you and you have no privacy

6.5

The round open part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco

slop bowl
  • Archaic
9.1

A bowl for holding leftover tea or coffee from cups

8.2

A bowl for holding kitchen scraps to feed animals like pigs

How Narrow

shank
6 8.2
pipestem
8.4
stem
126 1.6
bowl
44 6.7

Surface Forms

bowl singular
bowls plural

Etymology

Bowl for the part of a pipe is named after the old word bolla meaning 'round cup', because the rounded part of the pipe 'holds' the tobacco in the same way a small dish holds food.