bowl
4
6.7
- noun
- /boʊl/
- He packed the tobacco into the bowl of his pipe before lighting it.
- bowl of the pipe
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Watch on YouTubeAnd he just he hit the bowl and it's like skull and then just fucking boop, dude.
- And he just he hit the bowl and it's like skull and then just fucking boop, dude.
- It was Ella's friends and they were saying how they had this, like they got this like really good weed and they they packed this like bowl for him.
Examples
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The rounded bowl at the top of the smoking pipe holds the tobacco.
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She carefully cleaned the bowl of her smoking pipe to ensure a better flavor.
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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
1
6.5
The round open part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.1
A machine that chops and mixes meat and other food inside a spinning bowl
- Specialized
A machine that chops and mixes meat quickly with fast blades in a round bowl
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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.