noun
Etymology: Middle English waterpipe, from water + pipe
1. : a pipe for conveying water
2. : a smoking device used chiefly in the Orient, made of a bowl mounted on a vessel of water, often provided with a long flexible tube terminating in a mouthpiece, and so arranged that the smoke is drawn from the bowl through the water where it is cooled and up the tube to the mouth — compare hookah , hubble-bubble 1, nargileh