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hubble-bubble - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'hubble-bubble' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hubble-bubble [ n.]
- A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.

Meaning of 'hubble-bubble' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hubble-bubble [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Example in sentence:
  • a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola

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