shisha
- n an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
- A friend and I once had coffee and shisha (water pipe) with him in Cairo.
- Most of the restaurant business is taken over by cafes that offer the post-Iftar shisha (hookah pipes) and sweet drinks like hibiscus and tamarind juices.
- Britain's smoking ban poses a crisis for the shisha bars where Muslims and others puff on a water pipes in an alcohol-free environment.