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Meanings of shisha in English
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
Synonyms
Examples for "hookah"
Examples for "hookah"
1
The merchant put some new coals in the hookah, and inhaled deeply.
2
After the meal was over, the Rajah lit his hookah, and said:
3
Giganalee retreated to her chair and uncoiled the tubing from her hookah.
4
They found 276 poisonings involving hookah, most involving children, teens and young adults.
5
And the governor puffed furiously away at the hookah he had just lighted.
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The catering tents serving pisco sours and non-alcoholic chicha morada made from purple maize.
2
Their beverage, called chicha-a name common throughout South America-wasprepared from honey and water.
3
The peddler of chicha carries around a large stone jar, about a yard in depth.
4
The whole community gathers to drink chicha, a strong local beer, to celebrate girlhood and womanhood.
5
In Nicaragua "chicha," a kind of light beer, made from maize, is still the favourite Indian beverage.
1
The whole of Turkey is bubbling with labour unrest like the rosewater in a narghile.
2
The amber mouthpiece of a narghile was between her lips and she was enveloped in a cloud of pale smoke.
3
He relapsed into thought, and for some time the silence was only broken by the bubbling of the water in the narghile.
4
Of those Turkish pipes which are used in Egypt, Mr. Lane, after mentioning the narghile and the chibouque or "shibuk," says:-
5
The young wife was looking at her husband who was smoking a narghile, the only form of pipe she would have suffered in that room.
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The modus operandi of manipulating the kalian likewise comes in for a slight modification here.
2
Afterward we repair to Mirza Abdul Kiirim Khan's house to smoke the kalian and drink tea.
3
Semnoon is celebrated for the excellence of its kalian tobacco, and O'Donovan was celebrated in Semnoon for his love of the kalian.
4
They have brought along the kind old Kahn's kalian and tobacco-bag, and the wherewithal to make me a parting glass of tea.
5
It's closest to some form of Kalian falling sickness but there's no sign of jaundice.
1
I'd let you smoke a nargileh, if you wanted to, surrounded by rolls of blue prints.
2
Then, seating himself on the divan, he clapped his hands, and an attendant brought him his nargileh.
3
I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks.
4
If the Pasha of Damascus were to go himself, the Bedouins would unveil his harem while he was smoking his nargileh.'
5
He kissed the hand of Bishop Nicodemus, but then he sent his own nargileh to the Emir Ahmet Raslan, who was Caimacam of the Druses.
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The lads were all linked up to a hubble-bubble.
2
Pa, sitting holding his exhausted hubble-bubble, was as though he had no existence at all.
3
I shall now produce the hubble-bubble and we will transport ourselves into a Bedouin black tent.
4
He had none of the sleepiness and fatalistic languor of the fat hubble-bubble smoking Turk of caricature.
5
I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks.
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So the scheme of climbing up the water pipe came to nothing.
2
There was a water pipe against the wall just outside my window.
3
He laughed, while Xayide drew smoke from her water pipe and smiled.
4
Significance: In recent years a water pipe gains popularity among Polish young people.
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A burst water pipe left Waihi without water yesterday for a short period.
Usage of shisha in English
1
An unknown attacker opened fire at two shisha bars in the city.
2
The words alongside advertised a drinks afternoon with limitless alcohol and shisha pipes.
3
The shisha delivered to Akinosuke a message of condolence, and then said to him:-
4
The smell of shisha pipes wafts from a coffee shop.
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The suspect targeted two shisha bars on Wednesday evening.
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Nine people were killed in shisha bars in the Germany town of Hanau on Wednesday.
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Inside, they dance, smoke shisha, play backgammon and chant for the downfall of the ruling elites.
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Nine people died in attacks on two shisha bars in a city in western Germany on Wednesday.
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Several people are dead following two shootings at shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau.
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It said the nine victims of the shooting at shisha bars included five young people, including a woman.
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He added that he could not say who was visiting the shisha bars at the time of attack.
12
The suspect shot dead nine people "of migrant background" at two shisha bars on Wednesday evening.
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The city's six shisha bars, which according to the current regulations should have been closed, were controlled as a result.
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Many shisha bars have been selling illegal tobacco to unsuspecting customers despite authorities' efforts to crack down on the trade.
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They have been replaced by commercial establishments including a falafel shop, shisha lounge and yoga studio -and heightened security.
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Introduction: Waterpipe tobacco smoking, also known as hookah and shisha, has surged in popularity among young people in the United States.
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