water pipe

Questions about water pipe

What does water pipe mean?

water pipe means "an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water".

What is another word for water pipe?

Close synonyms include hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water pipe a common word?

water pipe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.