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huqa

huqa is the alternative form of hookah.

Meaning of hookah

Noun

hookah (plural hookahs)

  1. (recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
    • In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the...1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction
  2. A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

Forms of huqa

pluralhuqas

Questions about huqa

What is huqa the alternative form of?
Huqa is the alternative form of hookah.

Words near huqa in the dictionary

  1. HUPRA syndrome
  2. huprine
  3. huprines
  4. hups
  5. huq
  6. huqa
  7. huqas
  8. huqin
  9. Huqiu
  10. huqqa
  11. huqqah

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