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chillam

chillam 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 chillam

pluralchillams

Questions about chillam

What is chillam the alternative form of?
Chillam is the alternative form of chillum.

Words near chillam in the dictionary

  1. chilladors
  2. chillagite
  3. chillagites
  4. chillaksharam
  5. chillaksharams
  6. chillam
  7. chillams
  8. chillas
  9. chillax
  10. chillaxed
  11. chillaxer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chillam (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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