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 Usage(s) Outside an old Arab sucked on his hubble-bubble pipe, and said, with the quiet sureness of one who awaits the inevitable: "Suleiman el Ali has to die. Most Syrians, sipping coffee in the bazaars and smoking their hubble-bubble pipes, took hardly any notice of the change in government. He continued to loaf around Athens cafs puffing a hubble-bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Synonym(s) hookah narghile nargileh sheesha shisha chicha calean kalian water pipe hubbly-bubbly