water pipe
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- noun
- /ˈwɔːtər paɪp/
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- During the celebration, the guests relaxed and took turns inhaling from the colorful water pipe.
- smoking a water pipe
- hookah is a water pipe
- water pipe tobacco
Examples
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At the cafe, friends gathered to share stories while enjoying their flavored water pipe.
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I light up my water pipe and pass it to Leafie.
Fiction book (1996) -
The tribes liked the hookah water pipe.
Academic text (2010) -
We'd prepare tea and heat coals for the water pipe here...
Blog text (6) -
He watched a round-shouldered old man with shining silver whiskers drag sedately on his water pipe.
Fiction book (1999) -
The two hubbies decided to try the shisha water pipe, tobacco sucked through water and flavored with apple... very amusing.
Blog text (11) -
She filled the water pipe with mint tobacco and prepared it for their evening gathering.
Synonyms
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7.5
A long pipe that cools smoke in water for people to breathe in
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9.6
A water pipe for smoking tobacco that cools smoke through water
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9.9
A pipe with a long tube that cools tobacco smoke through water
A long pipe for smoking tobacco where smoke passes through water before you inhale
A pipe for smoking flavored tobacco through water with a long tube
A pipe with a long tube that passes tobacco smoke through water
A water pipe used to smoke flavored tobacco through water
A water pipe you smoke from that cools the smoke through water
A long pipe with a water bowl that people use to smoke tobacco
A long water pipe for cooling tobacco smoke before you breathe it in
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pipe through which water is conveyed' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'water' (the liquid) and 'pipe' (a tubular conduit); there is no figurative shift. This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern for instrument/material combinations, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Water pipe is named from the simple picture of smoke being pulled through a container of water and up a long pipe. The water cools the smoke and people often share the tube, so the phrase refers to the social smoking device also called a hookah.