Hubble-bubble

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hubble-bubble \Hub"ble-bub`ble\, 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. It
     is a simple type of {hookah}.
     [1913 Webster] Hubble Telescope



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hubble-bubble
       n : an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected
           to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing
           through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and
           Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn: {hookah},
            {narghile}, {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha}, {chicha}, {calean},
            {kalian}, {water pipe}, {hubbly-bubbly}]