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chelam

chelam is the alternative form of chillum.

Meaning of chillum

Noun

chillum (plural chillums)

  1. A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
    • He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 521
  2. The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls.

Forms of chelam

pluralchelams

Questions about chelam

What is chelam the alternative form of?
Chelam is the alternative form of chillum.

Words near chelam in the dictionary

  1. Chel Menar
  2. chela
  3. chelae
  4. chelah
  5. chelahs
  6. chelam
  7. chelams
  8. Chelan
  9. Chelan County
  10. chelandion
  11. chelandions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chelam (page history and authors); chillum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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