hubble-bubble

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Uncle jumped so violently that his chair overturned, the papers on the desk flew in every direction, and his pipe, a long, coconut-stemmed hubble-bubble, fell to the floor with a great clatter.

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  1. noun An uproar; a hubbub.
  2. noun See hookah.

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  • Muslims have a fantastic ability to turn on and off their "deeply sincere" beliefs when it comes to fooling non-Muslims, whether selling in a souk (that metalwork zarf-and-finjan set in Morocco, the hubble-bubble pipe in Egypt, the carpet in Damascus), or outside the souk, selling Infidels a bill of goods. —  Jihad Watch
  • FROM a glance at the clean-shaven young man in jeans puffing serenely on an apple-flavoured hubble-bubble in a coffee shop near Beirut, you would never guess that he had set off a firestorm of shootings and bombings that killed 67 British soldiers in the southern Iraqi province of Baser. —  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
  • Dizaei says he was hit with part of a hubble-bubble pipe after a bust up with a male. —  200 Weeks
  • Hey Merc talk about hubble-bubble views of history. —  Global Voices Online
  • He had none of the sleepiness and fatalistic languor of the fat hubble-bubble smoking Turk of caricature. —  In the Wilderness
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  1. Reduplication and alteration of bubble.

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  1. A varied redupl. of bubble.
 

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