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  • noun Plural form of hooka.

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Examples

  • The atmosphere of forced merrymaking — dancing, drinking, smoking hookas — failed to camouflage the collective stupor.

    Iraqi Refugees, America's Shame 2008

  • A public school could have 10 kids to a classroom and Mr. Rogers for a teacher, but if my kids are forced to hang with the middle school ballas and hookas I see hanging out at the public school bus stop on my way to work, I'm choosing private school.

    Sound Politics: Trust the parents instead 2006

  • These halls are generally used as shops and places of business; also as the resort of idlers, who sit upon mats and ottomans, smoking their hookas and watching the bustle in the streets.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • Both sexes are extremely fond of tobacco, which they smoke in pipes called hookas.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • "When an Arab enclave thrived in downtown," with an image of men smoking hookas, women wearing hijabs, etc., advancing the proposition that Arabs (and Muslims) are an integral part of

    Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org 2010

  • "When an Arab Enclave Thrived in Downtown," with an image of men smoking hookas, women wearing hijabs, etc., advancing the proposition that Arabs (and Muslims) are an integral part of

    MRZine.org 2010

  • This is spent on burgers, pastas, sodas and the occasional flavoured hookas.

    The Times of India 2009

  • The policy defines tobacco as "any type of tobacco product including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, pipes, bidis, hookas, smokeless or spit tobacco, or snuff."

    unknown title 2009

  • Most of all, Anbar reminds me of antiques made of dusty copper and brass and of chains of amber Masbaha displayed in abundance in a crowded souk, where fumes of incense weave their way through the abundance of old Persian carpets, coin-decorated belly dancer’s outfits, piles of dusty incense tears, copper lanterns and hookas laid out on the cool, footsteps-polished dusty stone floor.

    Anbar Ayala Sender 2007

  • Most of all, Anbar reminds me of antiques made of dusty copper and brass and of chains of amber Masbaha displayed in abundance in a crowded souk, where fumes of incense weave their way through the abundance of old Persian carpets, coin-decorated belly dancer’s outfits, piles of dusty incense tears, copper lanterns and hookas laid out on the cool, footsteps-polished dusty stone floor.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Ayala Sender 2007

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